Double
Stranded
RNA
-
dsRNA
It
is
found
in
animal
viruses
like
reovirus,
the
blue
tongue
virus,
the
cytoplasmic
polyhedrosis
virus
of
insects
and
retroviruses,
and
in
plant
viruses
like
the
wound
tumour
virus
and
the
rice
dwarf
virus.
In
the
reovirus,
the
cytoplasmic
polyhedrosis
virus
of
insects
and
the
blue
tongue
virus
the
dsRNA
consists
of
10
or
more
segments.
In
the
retrovirus
there
are
diploid
single
strands
forming
a
complex
with
7S
and
4S
RNA
of
the
host
cell.
The following generalizations may be made about viral nucleic acids.
