Molecular comparisons of alphabaculovirus-based products: Gypchek with disparvirus (Lymantria dispar) and TM Biocontrol-1 with virtuss (Orgyia pseudotsugata)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 546-556

  Zhang, Jianhua ^a   Lapointe, Rene ^a   Thumbi, David ^a   Morin, Benoit ^b   Lucarotti, Christopher J ^b  

^a Sylvar Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; VIRUS;

LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LYMANTRIA DISPAR MNPV; LYMANTRIIDAE; MIRIDAE; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; ORGYIA PSEUDOTSUGATA; ORGYIA PSEUDOTSUGATA MNPV; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 78649622160     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n10-037     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Ahrens, C.H., Russell, R.L.Q., Funk, C.J., Evans, J.T., Harwood, S.H., and Rohrmann, G.F. 1997. The sequence of the Orgyia pseudotsugata multi-nucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus genome. Virology, 229: 381-399. PMID:9126251 doi:10. 1006/viro.1997.8448.
2. Burland, T.G. 2000. DNASTAR's Lasergene sequence analysis software. Methods in Molecular Biology, 132: 71-91.
3. Cunningham, J.C. and Kaupp, W.J. 1995. Insect viruses. In Forest pest insects in Canada. Edited by J.A. Armstrong and W.G.H. Ives. Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. pp. 327-340.
4. Herniou, E.A., Luque, T., Chen, X., Vlak, J.M., Winstanley, D., Cory, J.S., and O'Reilly, D.R. 2001. Use of whole genome sequence data to infer baculovirus phylogeny. Journal of Virology, 75: 8117-8126. PMID:11483757 doi:10.1128/JVI.75. 17.8117-8126.2001.
5. Herniou, E.A., Olszewski, J.A., O'Reilly, D.R., and Cory, J.S. 2004. Ancient coevolution of baculo-viruses and their insect hosts. Journal of Virology, 78: 3244-3251. PMID:15016845 doi:10.1128/JVI. 78.7.3244-3251.2004.
6. Jehle, J.A., Blissard, G.W., Bonning, B.C., Cory, J.S., Herniou, E.A., Rohrmann, G.F., et al. 2006. On the classification and nomenclature of baculoviruses: a proposal for revision. Archives of Virology, 151: 1257-1266. PMID:16648963 doi:10.1007/s00705-006-0763-6. (Pubitemid 43964727)
7. Kuzio, J., Pearson, M.N., Harwood, S.H., Funk, C.J., Evans, J.T., Slavicek, J.M., and Rohrmann, GF. 1999. Sequence and analysis of the genome of a baculovirus pathogenic for Lymantria dispar. Virology, 253: 17-34. PMID:9887315 doi:10. 1006/viro.1998.9469.
8. Larkin, M.A., Blackshields, G., Brown, N.P., Chenna, R., McGettigan, P.A., McWilliam, H., Valentin et al. 2007. Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0. Bioinformatics, 23: 2947-2948. PMID:17846036 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm404. (Pubitemid 350162903)
9. Lynn, D.E., Dougherty, E.M., McClintock, J.T., and Shapiro, M. 1989. Comparative replication of Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus strains in three continuous-culture cell lines. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 55: 1049-1051. PMID:16347901.
10. Martignoni, M.E. 1999. History of TM BioControl-1: the first registered virus-based product for control of a forest insect. American Entomologist, 45: 30-37.
11. Moreau, G., and Lucarotti, C.J. 2007. A brief review of the past use of baculoviruses for the management of eruptive forest defoliators and recent developments on a sawfly virus in Canada. The Forestry Chronicle, 83: 105-112.
12. Moreau, G., Lucarotti, C.J., Kettela, E.G., Thurston, G.S., Holmes, S., Weaver, C., et al. 2005. Aerial application of nucleopolyhedrovirus induces decline in increasing and peaking populations of Neo-diprion abietis. Biological Control, 33: 65-73. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.01.008. (Pubitemid 40359154)
13. Nai, Y.S., Wu, C.Y., Wang, T.C., Chen, Y.R., Lau, W.H., Lo, C.F., et al. 2010. Genomic sequencing and analyses of Lymantria xylina multiple nucleo-polyhedrovirus. BMC Genomics, 11: 116. Available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/116 [accessed 4 September 2010].
14. Reed, C., Otvos, I.S. Reardon, R., Ragenovich, I., and Williams, H.L. 2003. Effects of long-term storage on the stability of OpMNPV DNA contained in TM Biocontrol-1. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 84: 104-113. PMID:14615219 doi:10.1016/j.jip.2003.08.002. (Pubitemid 37458045)
15. Slavicek, J.M. 1991. Temporal analysis and spatial mapping of Lymantria dispar nuclear poly-hedrosis virus transcripts and in vitro trans lation polypeptides. Virus Research, 20: 223-236. PMID:1685048 doi:10.1016/0168- 1702(91) 90077-9.
16. Slavicek, J.M., Podgwaite, J., and Lanner-Herrera, C. 1992. Properties of two Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolates obtained from the microbial pesticide Gypchek. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 59: 142-148. doi:10.1016/0022-2011(92)90024-X.