Covert infections as a mechanism for long-term persistence of baculoviruses

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 524-531

  Burden, John P ^a   Nixon, Clare P ^b   Hodgkinson, Alison E ^a   Possee, Robert D ^a   Sait, Steven M ^c   King, Linda A ^b   Hails, Rosemary S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic infections; Insect pathogen interactions; Mamestra brassicae nucleopolyhedrovirus; Persistence; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PERSISTENCE;

CYPOVIRUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMESTRA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0038727012     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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