The ability to manipulate the genomes of many insects has become a practical reality over
the past 15 years. This has been led by the identification of several useful transposon vector …

The piggyBac transposable element was originally isolated from the cabbage looper moth,
Trichoplusia ni, in the 1980s. Despite its early discovery and specificity compared to the …

Transposons, as non-viral integration vectors, provide a secure and efficient method for
stable gene delivery. In this study, we have discovered Mage (MG), a novel member of the …

Background HearMNPV, a nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV), which infects the cotton bollworm,
Helicoverpa armigera, comprises multiple rod-shaped nucleocapsids in virion (as detected …

The molecular biology of Baculoviruses has drawn a great deal of interest due to the variety
of applications of these viruses as: 1) agents for biological control of insect pests (Szewczyk …

piggyBac, a highly active transposon in insect and mammalian cells, is a very useful tool in
genome manipulation. A new piggyBac-like element (PLE), named PLE-wu, was identified …

Although the study of anti-viral responses in insects has lagged behind studies of responses
to other types of pathogens, progress has begun to rapidly accelerate over the past few …

Résumé Les éléments transposables sont des éléments génétiques mobiles présents dans
presque tous les génomes eucaryotes et procaryotes. Ils co-évoluent avec leurs hôtes et ont …

Background Members of the family Baculoviridae are rod-shaped viruses with circular,
covalently closed, double-stranded DNA genomes [1]. This family includes four genera …