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A novel system for the launch of alphavirus RNA synthesis reveals a role for the Imd pathway in arthropod antiviral response.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Sept 2009
Avadhanula Vasanthi, Weasner Brandon P, Hardy Gail G, Kumar Justin P, Hardy Richard W
Abstract excerpt
Alphaviruses are RNA viruses transmitted between vertebrate hosts by arthropod vectors, primarily mosquitoes. How arthropods counteract alphaviruses or viruses per se is not very well understood. Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model system for studying innate immunity against bacterial and...
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