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TWiV 138: RISCy business with Raul Andino

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Raul Andino

Vincent meets up with Raul Andino in San Francisco to discuss the RNAi-based antiviral defense system of Drosophila, the fruit fly, and how it is antagonized by viruses.

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Links for this episode:

• Antiviral immunity in Drosophila requires RNAi spread (Nature)
• Cricket paralysis virus antagonizes Argonaute 2 in Drosophila (Nature Struct Biol)
• Dicistroviridae at ViralZone
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