Lung cancer, which can be divided into two major clinical–pathological categories, small cell
lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, is the leading cause of cancer-related death …

The Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis is one of the most important freshwater
aquaculture crustacean species in China. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important regulatory roles in plant development and stress
responses. Tomato is an economically important vegetable crop in the world with publicly …

Obesity and associated metabolic disorders contribute importantly to the metabolic
syndrome. On the other hand, microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs …

Porcine cytomegalovirus (PCMV; genus Cytomegalovirus, subfamily Betaherpesvirinae,
family Herpesviridae) is an immunosuppressive virus that mainly inhibits the immune …

RNA silencing is not only a gene regulation mechanism that is conserved in a broad range
of eukaryotes but also an adaptive immune response against foreign nucleic acids including …

Several recent reviews expertly address the relative merits of different approaches to
preparation and analysis of deep-sequenced small RNA libraries. Here, we focus on an …

A Large number of short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are generated from plant viruses during
infection, but their function, character and biogenesis are unclear. Here, we analyzed the …

After almost 30 years of inertia in the field of sequencing, the emergence of a whole range of
so-called" next-generation" sequencing technologies has revolutionized the way we …

The gene has been an essential concept in biology for more than a century. The view of a
gene has changed along with the big breakthroughs in the life sciences. The evolution of the …