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The first virus naturally infecting Caenorhabditis elegans.
A rotten apple was the source of virally infected C. elegans, as reported in this issue by Félix et al. (e1000586). The small pictures making up the photomosaic show Caenorhabditis nematodes, some of which are infected as revealed by FISH staining of viral RNA. C. elegans mounts a small-RNA response that acts in antiviral defense, and this immune response varies among C. elegans wild isolates.
Image Credit: Marie-Anne Félix and Alyson Ashe.
Citation: (2011) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 9(1) January 2011. PLoS Biol 9(1): ev09.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v09.i01
Published: January 25, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Félix et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A rotten apple was the source of virally infected C. elegans, as reported in this issue by Félix et al. (e1000586). The small pictures making up the photomosaic show Caenorhabditis nematodes, some of which are infected as revealed by FISH staining of viral RNA. C. elegans mounts a small-RNA response that acts in antiviral defense, and this immune response varies among C. elegans wild isolates.
Image Credit: Marie-Anne Félix and Alyson Ashe.