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Efficient RNA interference in Caenorhabditis elegans requires a distinct class of secondary short interfering RNA.

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Figure 1: In C. elegans, RNAi has two pathways: primary RNAi and secondary RNAi.

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  1. Eric A. Miska and Julie Ahringer are at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK. eam29@cam.ac.uk or jaa@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk,

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Miska, E., Ahringer, J. RNA interference has second helpings. Nat Biotechnol 25, 302–303 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0307-302

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