MiRNA profiling of miRNAs in Hibernating Arctic Ground Squirrels
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ORGANISM(S): Urocitellus parryii
SUBMITTER: Wenchao Hu
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19808 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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Genomic analysis of miRNAs in an extreme mammalian hibernator, the Arctic ground squirrel.
Liu Yuting Y Hu Wenchao W Wang Haifang H Lu Minghua M Shao Chunxuan C Menzel Corinna C Yan Zheng Z Li Ying Y Zhao Sen S Khaitovich Philipp P Liu Mofang M Chen Wei W Barnes Brian M BM Yan Jun J
Physiological genomics 20100504 1
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 19- to 25-nucleotide-long small and noncoding RNAs now well-known for their regulatory roles in gene expression through posttranscriptional and translational controls. Mammalian hibernation is a physiological process involving profound changes in set-points for food consumption, body mass and growth, body temperature, and metabolic rate in which miRNAs may play important regulatory roles. In an initial study, we analyzed miRNAs in the liver of an extreme hibernating specie ...[more]
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