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Establishment of Viral Infection and Analysis of Host-Virus Interaction in Drosophila Melanogaster
Published on: March 14, 2019
Innate antiviral immunity in Drosophila
Leah R Sabin1, Sheri L Hanna, Sara Cherry
1Department of Microbiology, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Current Opinion in Immunology
|February 9, 2010
Abstract
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The study of Drosophila, and other genetically tractable insects, has expanded our understanding of innate immunity and more recently antiviral innate mechanisms. The Drosophila antiviral program includes inflammatory signaling cascades as well as antiviral RNA silencing and autophagy. This review will highlight the recent discoveries in antiviral immunity in insects and will reveal some of the lessons learned.

