Small RNAs and the control of transposons and viruses in Drosophila

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 163-171

  van Rij, Ronald P ^a   Berezikov, Eugene ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA VIRUS; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

FLOCK HOUSE VIRUS; HEXAPODA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 63349111149     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.01.003     Document Type: Review

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