Genomic architecture of endogenous ichnoviruses reveals distinct evolutionary pathways leading to virus domestication in parasitic wasps

Abstract Background Polydnaviruses (PDVs) are mutualistic endogenous viruses inoculated by some lineages of parasitoid wasps into their hosts, where they facilitate successful wasp development. PDVs include the ichnoviruses and bracoviruses that originate from independent viral acquisitions in ichne...

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Main Authors: Fabrice Legeai, Bernardo F. Santos, Stéphanie Robin, Anthony Bretaudeau, Rebecca B. Dikow, Claire Lemaitre, Véronique Jouan, Marc Ravallec, Jean-Michel Drezen, Denis Tagu, Frédéric Baudat, Gabor Gyapay, Xin Zhou, Shanlin Liu, Bruce A. Webb, Seán G. Brady, Anne-Nathalie Volkoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-020-00822-3