A novel eukaryotic RdRP-dependent small RNA pathway represses antiviral immunity by controlling an ERK pathway component in the black-legged tick

• Canran Feng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan

  ⨯
• Kyosuke Torimaru,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan

  ⨯
• Mandy Yu Theng Lim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  ⨯
• Li-Ling Chak,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  ⨯
• Masami Shiimori,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan

  ⨯
• Kosuke Tsuji,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan

  ⨯
• Tetsuya Tanaka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

  ⨯
• Junko Iida,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan

  ⨯
• Katsutomo Okamura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: okamurak@bs.naist.jp

  Affiliations Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8316-0960

  ⨯