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ArticleCurrent opinion in insect science2015

Regulation of physiological processes by microRNAs in insects.

Keira J Lucas, Bo Zhao, Shiping Liu, Alexander S Raikhel

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Article in Current opinion in insect science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Keira J LucasDepartment of Entomology, University of California Riverside CA 92521, USA ; Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Riverside CA 92521, USA.
Bo ZhaoDepartment of Entomology, University of California Riverside CA 92521, USA ; Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside CA 92521, USA.
Shiping LiuThe State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Alexander S RaikhelDepartment of Entomology, University of California Riverside CA 92521, USA ; Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside CA 92521, USA.
University of California, Riverside · USSouthwest University · CN

Funding

The role of mosquito microRNAs in blood digestion.R01AI113729 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI RAIKHEL, ALEXANDER SIMEON · 2014 to 2023
$4.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI113729
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that function in gene regulatory processes in plants and animals by targeting sites within messenger RNA. In insects, miRNAs have been shown to regulate a variety of physiological processes throughout insect development, including molting, metamorphosis, oogenesis, embryogenesis, behavior and host-pathogen interactions. The roles of miRNAs in the model organism,

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PMID26251827
PMCPMC4522942
OpenAlexW923159589

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