RNA silencing: No mercy for viruses?

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 198, Issue , 2004, Pages 285-303

  Lecellier, Charles Henri ^a   Voinnet, Olivier ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INTERFERON; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST RESISTANCE; INSECT; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SILENCING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRUSES;

EID: 1642504452     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00128.x     Document Type: Review

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