MicroMining : computational approaches to microRNA discovery / Adam Grundhoff -- Animal microRNA gene prediction / Ola Snv̜e and Pl̄ St̆rom -- A suite of resources for the study of microRNA ontology and function / Praveen Sethupathy, Molly Megraw, and Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou -- Regulation of translation and mRNA stability by Hfq-binding small RNAs in Escherichia coli / Hiroji Aiba -- Mechanisms by which microRNAs regulate gene expression in animal cells / Yang Yu and Timothy W. Nilsen -- The microRNAs of Caenorhabditis elegans / Mona J. Nolde and Frank J. Slack -- Isolation and characterization of small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans / Chisato Ushida and Yusuke Hokii -- MicroRNA tales in fly development / Utpal Bhadra ... [et al.] -- RNA interference and microRNAs in zebra fish / Alex S. Flynt, Elizabeth J. Thatcher, and James G. Patton -- Biogenesis and function of plant microRNAs / Zoltan Havelda -- Endogenous small RNA pathways in Arabidopsis / Manu Agarwal, Julien Curaba, and Xuemei Chen --

How to assay microRNA expression : a technology guide / Mirco Castoldi, Vladimir Benes, and Martina U. Muckenthaler -- Methods to quantify microRNA gene expression / Lori A. Neely -- Regulation of alternative splicing by microRNAs / Rajesh K. Gaur -- Recent progress in polymerase II-mediated intronic microRNA expression systems / Shi-Lung Lin and Shao-Yao Ying -- MicroRNA-based RNA polymerase II expression vectors for RNA interference in mammalian cells / Anne B. Vojtek ... [et al.] -- Transgenic RNAi : a fast and low-cost approach to reverse genetics in mammals / Linghua Qiu and Zuoshang Xu -- Symphony of AIDS : a microRNA-based therapy / Yoichi R. Fujii -- MicroRNAs and cancer : connecting the dots / Sumedha D. Jayasena -- Mammalian transcriptional gene silencing by small RNAs / Daniel H. Kim and John J. Rossi -- Regulation of gene expression by RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing / Kevin V. Morris.