Intra- and intergenerational persistence of an insect nucleopolyhedrovirus: Adverse effects of sublethal disease on host development, reproduction, and susceptibility to superinfection

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2954-2960

  Cabodevilla, Oihana ^a   Villar, Eduardo ^a   Virto, Cristina ^a   Murillo, Rosa ^a,b   Williams, Trevor ^c   Caballero, Primitivo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROBIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; DNA POLYMERASE GENES; EGG HATCH; IN-FIELD; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; SUPERINFECTION; VIRAL DNA; VIRAL TRANSCRIPTS;

GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUSES;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; FECUNDITY; HOST USE; INFECTIVITY; INSECT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PERSISTENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; LARVA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; SPODOPTERA;

SPAIN;

HEXAPODA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA MNPV;

EID: 79955575463     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02762-10     Document Type: Article

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