polydnavirus

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noun

An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.

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nounpolydnavirus (plural polydnaviruses)

plural polydnaviruses

  1. An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.

    Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses (one of the two major recognized polydnavirus lineages) and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance.

    2009 February 13, Donald B. Stoltz, James B. Whitfield, “VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI, pages 884–885
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