Pre-metazoan origin of animal miRNAs
Jon Brate, Ralf Stefan Neumann, Bastian Fromm, Arthur Alexander Blorstad Haraldsen, Paul Grini, Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi
The paper identifies miRNA genes and biogenesis machinery in unicellular Ichthyosporea, suggesting miRNAs and the Microprocessor complex originated before multicellular animals.
bioRxiv · Sep 28, 2016Evolutionary Biology