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Evolution of MicroRNAs
Andrea Tanzer, Peter F. Stadler
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MicroRNA Protocols, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, Methods in Molecular Biology 342: 335-350 (2006).
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) form a large class of small regulatory RNAs in eukaryotes.
Although they share a common processing pathway and certain structural features,
in general, there is no detectable sequence similarity among miRNAs from a given organism.
On the other hand, many miRNAs are members of a family of a few, often very similar, paralogs.
It is, thus, of interest to trace the evolutionary history of individual miRNAs,
to identify the timing of gene duplications, and to study relationships between
the histories of different miRNA families. Some miRNAs are transcribed from
polycistronic primary transcripts. In these cases, we will study the evolution
of entire clusters.