Most Caenorhabditis elegans microRNAs Are Individually Not Essential for Development or Viability

• Eric A Miska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric A Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L Abbott

  Current address: Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric A Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L Abbott

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Allison L Abbott ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric A Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison L Abbott

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Nelson C Lau,

  Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andrew B Hellman,

  Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Shannon M McGonagle,

  Current address: Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• David P Bartel,

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Victor R Ambros,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• H. Robert Horvitz

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: horvitz@mit.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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