Viroids
"Viroids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of pathogens comprising the smallest known agents of infectious disease. They are unencapsulated and are capable of replicating autonomously in susceptible cells. Positively identified viroids composed of single-stranded RNA have been isolated from higher plants, but the existence of DNA viroids pathogenic to animals is suspected.
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D014772
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.956
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Viroids" by people in Profiles.
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Lasda E, Parker R. Circular RNAs: diversity of form and function. RNA. 2014 Dec; 20(12):1829-42.
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Cech TR, Bass BL. Biological catalysis by RNA. Annu Rev Biochem. 1986; 55:599-629.