Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Pre-metazoan origin of animal miRNAs
Jon Brate, Ralf Stefan Neumann, Bastian Fromm…·Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi
The paper identifies miRNA genes and biogenesis machinery in unicellular Ichthyosporea, suggesting miRNAs and the Microprocessor complex originated before multicellular animals.
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.018