Parasitoids are parasites that invariably kill their host. Polydnaviruses are injected by
parasitoid wasps into the body cavity of their insect host and cause immunosuppression …

Endoparasitic insects are used as biological control agents to kill many species of insect
pest. One key to the success of parasitoids that develop in the hemocoel of their host is their …

This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of parasitic Hymenoptera, focusing
primarily on genetics, developmental biology, physiology, anatomy and molecular biology …

Symbionts often exhibit significant reductions in genome complexity while pathogens often
exhibit increased complexity through acquisition and diversification of virulence …

▪ Abstract Polydnavirus genome sequencing is providing new insights into viral genome
organization and viral gene function. Sequence analyses demonstrate that the genomes of …

Virus-host associations are usually viewed as parasitic, but several studies in recent years
have reported examples of viruses that benefit host organisms. The Polydnaviridae are of …

Abstract The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recognized the
Polydnaviridae in 1991 as a virus family associated with insects called parasitoid wasps …

The ovaries of endoparasitic species of braconid and ichneumonid wasps contain large
numbers of polydnavirus (PDV) virions that replicate in specialized calyx cells of the ovaries …

Polydnaviruses produced by the hymenopteran endoparasitoid Cotesia rubecula are
deposited together with the egg into the lepidopteran host Pieris rapae and are apparently …

Shared epitopes among venom, ovarian, and viral proteins may indicate that related
proteins have similar functional roles during parasitization of Heliothis virescens by …