Main description:

This contributed volume offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the various aspects of long non-coding RNAs and discusses their emerging significance. Written by leading experts in the field, it motivates young researchers around the globe, and offers graduate and postgraduate students fascinating insights into genes and their regulation in eukaryotes and higher organisms.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Non coding RNA: History, Discovery and Classification of non coding RNA.- Chapter 2. Long non coding RNA: Genome organization and mechanism of action.- 3. Long non coding RNAs in Invertebrates: Drosophila.- Chapter 4. Long non coding RNAs in unicellular organisms: Yeast.- Chapter 5. Long non coding RNAs in Plants.- Chapter 6. Long non coding RNAs in mammalian development and disorders.- Chapter 7. Long non coding RNAs in Cancer and therapeutic potential.- Chapter 8. Long non coding RNAs in Stem cell and Differentiation.- Chapter 9. Long non coding RNAs in Brain development.- Chapter 10. Technological developments in lncRNA Biology.