Identification and Profiling of MicroRNAs During Embryogenesis in the Red Claw Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus.

ABSTRACT: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs that constitute a broad layer of gene regulation at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. In embryonic development, they regulate the complex gene expression associated with the complexity of embryogenesis. There is little information about miRNAs in the red claw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus), an important commercial species and a potential biological model. In the present study, miRNAs and their target genes were identified during three embryonic developmental stages of C. quadricarinatus. Nineteen known miRNAs and 331 novel ones belonging to 50 miRNA families were obtained. A total of 113 differentially expressed miRNAs were identified, and 2,575 target genes were pred

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7521159 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature