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    Cricket paralysis virus antagonizes Argonaute 2 to modulate antiviral defense in Drosophila

    Some viruses carry suppressors to inhibit host response to infection through the RNAi pathways. Previously the insect virus DCV was found to target host response by inhibiting Drosophila Dicer function. The relat...

    Arabinda Nayak, Bassam Berry, Michel Tassetto in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2010)

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    Antiviral immunity in Drosophila requires systemic RNA interference spread

    Drosophila and other insects are known to be able to mount a local antiviral defence involving RNA interference (RNAi). It was previously thought that Drosophila is unable to systemically spread an RNAi response,...

    Maria-Carla Saleh, Michel Tassetto, Ronald P. van Rij, Bertsy Goic in Nature (2009)