PIWIs Go Viral: Arbovirus-Derived piRNAs in Vector Mosquitoes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Miesen, Pascal ^a   Joosten, Joep ^a   van Rij, Ronald P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AEDES; ARBOVIRUS; BIOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOSQUITO; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; REOVIRIDAE; REVIEW; RHABDOVIRIDAE; RNA SEQUENCE; TOGAVIRIDAE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INSECT VECTOR; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUSES; CULICIDAE; INSECT VECTORS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 85008367767     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006017     Document Type: Review

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