MicroRNAs: from mechanism to organism

PJ Dexheimer, L Cochella - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, regulatory RNAs that act as post-transcriptional repressors
of gene expression in diverse biological contexts. The emergence of small RNA-mediated …

Evolution of microRNA diversity and regulation in animals

E Berezikov - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2011 - nature.com
In the past decade, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been uncovered as key regulators of gene
expression at the post-transcriptional level. The ancient origin of miRNAs, their dramatic …

miREvo: an integrative microRNA evolutionary analysis platform for next-generation sequencing experiments

M Wen, Y Shen, S Shi, T Tang - BMC bioinformatics, 2012 - Springer
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (~ 19-24nt) non-coding RNAs that play
important roles in various biological processes. To date, the next-generation sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny

AG Clark, MB Eisen, DR Smith, CM Bergman, B Oliver… - Nature, 2007 - hal.science
Comparative analysis of multiple genomes in a phylogenetic framework dramatically
improves the precision and sensitivity of evolutionary inference, producing more robust …

Origins and evolution of eukaryotic RNA interference

SA Shabalina, EV Koonin - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2008 - cell.com
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and genome-encoded microRNAs (miRNAs) silence genes
via complementary interactions with mRNAs. With thousands of miRNA genes identified and …

New gene evolution: little did we know

M Long, NW VanKuren, S Chen… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Genes are perpetually added to and deleted from genomes during evolution. Thus, it is
important to understand how new genes are formed and how they evolve to be critical …

Impact of microRNA regulation on variation in human gene expression

J Lu, AG Clark - Genome research, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously expressed small RNAs that regulate expression of
mRNAs at the post-transcriptional level. The consequence of miRNA regulation is …

Genomic reaction norms: using integrative biology to understand molecular mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity

N Aubin‐Horth, SCP Renn - Molecular ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity is the development of different phenotypes from a single genotype,
depending on the environment. Such plasticity is a pervasive feature of life, is observed for …

microRNAs in the same clusters evolve to coordinately regulate functionally related genes

Y Wang, J Luo, H Zhang, J Lu - Molecular biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously expressed small noncoding RNAs. The genomic
locations of animal miRNAs are significantly clustered in discrete loci. We found duplication …

De Novo Genes

L Zhao, N Svetec, DJ Begun - Annual Review of Genetics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Although the majority of annotated new genes in a given genome appear to have arisen
from duplication-related mechanisms, recent studies have shown that genes can also …