Deep annotation of Drosophila melanogaster microRNAs yields insights into their processing, modification, and emergence.

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Published in Genome Res on December 22, 2010

Authors

Eugene Berezikov1, Nicolas Robine, Anastasia Samsonova, Jakub O Westholm, Ammar Naqvi, Jui-Hung Hung, Katsutomo Okamura, Qi Dai, Diane Bortolamiol-Becet, Raquel Martin, Yongjun Zhao, Phillip D Zamore, Gregory J Hannon, Marco A Marra, Zhiping Weng, Norbert Perrimon, Eric C Lai

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1: Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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