When parasitic wasps hijacked viruses: Genomic and functional evolution of polydnaviruses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1626, 2013, Pages

  Herniou, Elisabeth A ^a   Huguet, Elisabeth ^a   Thézé, Julien ^a   Bézier, Annie ^a   Periquet, Georges ^a   Drezen, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Cotesia; Genome evolution; Obligatory mutualism; Parasitoid wasp; Polydnavirus; Virus adaptation

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; VIRUS; WASP;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYDNAVIRIDAE; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WASP;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYDNAVIRIDAE; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

EID: 84881576651     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0051     Document Type: Review

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