... demonstrated as a natural antiviral defense in plants Is RNAi also antiviral in animals? Flock house virus (FHV), which can infect both animals and plants, was demonstrated as both an initiator and a ... biogenesis and possible roles of miRNAs and siRNAs 1.3.8 Viral suppressor and miRNA-controlled developmental pathway interaction After discovering miRNAs in plants, researchers started to investigate ... which contains an ATP-dependent RNA helicase, a PAZ domain, two RNaseIII domains and a dsRNA-binding domain, have been identified in Arabidopsis (Park et al., 2002), C elegans (Ketting et al., 2001;...