Parasitoids and polydnaviruses: An unsual mode of symbiosis in which a DNA virus causes host insect immunosuppression and allows the parasitoid to develop

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-311

  Beckage, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0031897932     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313357     Document Type: Review

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