The long and short of antiviral defense: Small RNA-based immunity in insects

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-28

  Bronkhorst, Alfred W ^a   Van Rij, Ronald P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENOMIC RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BIOGENESIS; DNA VIRUS; DNA VIRUS INFECTION; DROSOPHILA; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT VIRUS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUS; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; TRANSPOSON; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DROSOPHILA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; VIRUSES;

EID: 84898614591     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: 18796265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2014.03.010     Document Type: Review

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