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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 372-375Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2007.04.003
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) modulate expression of their target genes in various tissues and at different developmental stages, but it is unclear whether they drive cross-species variation in gene expression. By comparing data from mammal and fly species we found that the cross-species expression variation of miRNA targets is significantly lower than that of other genes. This implies that miRNAs can affect gene expression by reducing stochastic noise, buffering cross-species variation and constraining evolutionary gene expression variation.
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