Comparative and Functional Genomics
Volume 2008, Article ID 571023, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/571023
Research Article
Subcellular Localization and RNA Interference of an RNA Methyltransferase Gene from Silkworm, Bombyx Mori
Institute of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Second Avenue, Xiasha, Hangzhou 310018, China
Received 1 November 2007; Accepted 17 March 2008
Academic Editor: Jurg Bahler
Copyright © 2008 Zuoming Nie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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