Small RNA Plays Important Roles in Virus-Host Interactions

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  • 1Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.

Viruses
|November 11, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
RNA phosphataseRNAiantivirusnon-coding small RNAsvirus–host interaction

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