Genetics Project Primary Source Articles

Science Mag base paper
Polydnaviruses of Braconid Wasps Derive from an Ancestral Nudivirus
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PubMed
Endoparasitoid wasp bracovirus-mediated inhibition of hemolin function and lepidopteran host immunosuppression
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PubMed
Polydnavirus genes and genomes: emerging gene families and new insights into polydnavirus replication
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PubMed currently reading
Comparative genomics of mutualistic viruses of Glyptapanteles parasitic wasps
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Elizabeth Willott at Az. Univ.
Endoparasitoids and Polydnaviruses
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Polydnavirus DNA of the braconid wasp Chelonus inanitus is integrated in the wasp's genome and excised only in later pupal and adult stages of the female.
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Origin and evolution of polydnaviruses by symbiogenesis of insect DNA viruses in endoparasitic wasps.
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Ancestral virus gave wasps their parasitic power
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