The Muscleblind-like protein MBL-1 regulates microRNA expression in Caenorhabditis elegans through an evolutionarily conserved autoregulatory mechanism.

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"This work and S.M.D.A.G. were supported by the Academy of Finland Project Funding (grant number 309173), University of Helsinki Internal Funding. J.V. was supported by an Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation Grant (https://www.ellageorg.fi). J.T. was funded by the Instrumentarium Science Foundation (https://instrufoundation.fi) (230040) and the Finnish Cultural Foundation (https://skr.fi) (00222470). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."