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Towards a complete description of the microRNA complement of animal genomes

Julius Brennecke and Stephen M Cohen*

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European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:228 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-228

Published: 21 August 2003

Abstract

Recent cloning and computational studies have sought to catalog all the microRNA genes encoded in animal genomes. Here, we highlight recent advances in identifying Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster microRNAs.