Mutational analysis of Aedes aegypti Dicer 2 provides insights into the biogenesis of antiviral exogenous small interfering RNAs

• Rommel J. Gestuveo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rommel J. Gestuveo, Rhys Parry

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rjgestuveo@up.edu.ph (R.J.G.); margus.varjak@glasgow.ac.uk (M.V.); alain.kohl@glasgow.ac.uk (A.K.)

  Affiliations MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Division of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4609-3551

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• Rhys Parry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rommel J. Gestuveo, Rhys Parry

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-1952

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• Laura B. Dickson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Insect-Virus Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, UMR2000, CNRS, Paris, France, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Sebastian Lequime,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Insect-Virus Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, UMR2000, CNRS, Paris, France, Cluster of Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-0651

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• Vattipally B. Sreenu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-4697

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• Matthew J. Arnold,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Alexander A. Khromykh,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Global Virus Network Centre of Excellence, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6206-6935

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• Esther Schnettler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel-Riems, Hamburg, Germany, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Louis Lambrechts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Insect-Virus Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, UMR2000, CNRS, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-2138

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• Margus Varjak ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rjgestuveo@up.edu.ph (R.J.G.); margus.varjak@glasgow.ac.uk (M.V.); alain.kohl@glasgow.ac.uk (A.K.)

  Affiliations MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-5148

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• Alain Kohl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rjgestuveo@up.edu.ph (R.J.G.); margus.varjak@glasgow.ac.uk (M.V.); alain.kohl@glasgow.ac.uk (A.K.)

  Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1523-9458

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