Nudiviruses (Nudiviridae) are double-stranded DNA viruses with enveloped and rod-shaped
virions. Several insect orders (eg, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera) and aquatic …

Highlights•Insect endogenous viral elements (EVE) belong to at least 28 viral families.•The
number of EVE is correlated to insect genome size.•So far most insect EVE derive from ss (−) …

The parasitoid lifestyle is largely regarded as a key innovation that contributed to the
evolutionary success and extreme species richness of the order Hymenoptera …

Endogenous viruses form an important proportion of eukaryote genomes and a source of
novel functions. How large DNA viruses integrated into a genome evolve when they confer a …

Ichneumonoidea is one of the most diverse lineages of animals on the planet with> 48,000
described species and many more undescribed. Parasitoid wasps of this superfamily are …

To gain insight into wasp factors that might be involved in the initial induction of galls on
woody plants, we performed high throughput (454) transcriptome analysis of ovaries and …

Modern genomic sequencing and bioinformatics approaches have detected numerous
examples of DNA sequences derived from DNA and RNA virus genomes integrated into …

Parasitoids introduce various virulence factors when parasitism occurs, and some taxa
generate teratocytes to manipulate the host immune system and metabolic homeostasis for …

Polydnaviruses (PDVs) were originally viewed as large DNA viruses that are beneficial
symbionts of parasitoid wasps. Two groups of PDVs were also recognized: bracoviruses …

Highlights•Many viruses can integrate into the genomes of hosts.•BVs, IVs, and VLPs
evolved from viruses that integrated into parasitoid wasps.•BVs and IVs have evolved similar …