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One group of rebels, known as the Chan Santa Cruz, held out in the jungles of Quintana Roo around the city of Tulum, harrying the Mexicans and making the east coast of the Yucatán a dangerous area, off-limits until well into the 20th century.
Meanwhile, under the presidency of Porfirio Diaz, Quintana Roo on the Yucatán peninsula’s eastern coast, named after Andreas Quintana Roo — a writer and independence movement leader between 1810 and 1821 — was declared a territory of Mexico in 1902.
A three-year study of various sites was conducted by a consortium of government and private interests, and the deserted island of Cancún won out: not only was it a beautiful spot, but its use would revive the flagging economy of the Yucatán and finally bring Quintana Roo into the fold.
The first recorded Europeans to arrive in the Yucatán, in 1511, were doubly unfortunate: a group of Spanish sailors survived a shipwreck on the coast of what is now Quintana Roo, only to be sacrificed by the Mayan natives.
The starting point for our studies was a reference set of 24 Drosophila pre-miRNA sequences ( let-7 , the 21 originally identified by Lagos-Quintana and colleagues, mir-125 , and a previously undescribed paralog of mir-2 that we named mir-2c [ 9 10 29 ] ). We analyzed this set to derive rules and determine parameters that specifically describe known miRNA genes within anonymous genomic sequence.