A conserved Y-shaped RNA structure in the 3’UTR of chikungunya virus genome as a host-specialized element that modulates viral replication and evolution

• Eugenia Soledad Bardossy,

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

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Universidad Nacional de San Martín—CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnología, Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Sebastiano Volpe,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas "Prof. Alejandro C. Paladini" (IQUIFIB), Universidad de Buenos Aires—CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Affiliation Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnología, Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Diego Ezequiel Alvarez,

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

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Universidad Nacional de San Martín—CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnología, Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Claudia Verónica Filomatori

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

  * E-mail: cfilomatori@iibintech.com.ar

  Current address: Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas "Prof. Alejandro C. Paladini" (IQUIFIB), Universidad de Buenos Aires—CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Universidad Nacional de San Martín—CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Escuela de Bio y Nanotecnología, Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0728-5227

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