RNA viruses and the host microRNA machinery

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 169-180

  Tenoever, Benjamin R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHORDATA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE SILENCING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICRORNAS; NEMATODA; PLANTS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84874046758     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2971     Document Type: Review

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