Gene silencing as an adaptive defence against viruses

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6839, 2001, Pages 834-842

  Waterhouse, Peter M ^a   Wang, Ming Bo ^a   Lough, Tony ^b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c Genesis Research & Development Corporation Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; METHYLATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035859046     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35081168     Document Type: Review

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