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ORGANISM(S): Spodoptera frugiperda
SUBMITTER: frederique hilliou
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-17293 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Provost Bertille B Jouan Véronique V Hilliou Frédérique F Delobel Pierre P Bernardo Pauline P Ravallec Marc M Cousserans François F Wajnberg Eric E Darboux Isabelle I Fournier Philippe P Strand Michael R MR Volkoff Anne-Nathalie AN
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 20110330 8
The Polydnaviridae is a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that are symbionts of parasitoid wasps. The family is currently divided into two genera, the Ichnovirus (IV) and Bracovirus (BV), which are associated with wasps in the families Ichneumonidae and Braconidae, respectively. IVs and BVs have similar immunosuppressive and developmental effects on parasitized hosts but their encapsidated genomes largely encode different genes. To assess whether IV and BV infection has similar or disparate ...[more]