mir-40 encodes a microRNA, a small non-protein codong RNA; mir-40 has a potential C. briggsae ortholog; mir-40 is part of the mir-35-mir-41 cluster of miRNAs and functions redundantly with other members of this cluster to control embryonic development; mir-40 is highly expressed in the embryo and in young adults with eggs, but not at other developmental stages.
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.