Densovirus Is a Mutualistic Symbiont of a Global Crop Pest (Helicoverpa armigera) and Protects against a Baculovirus and Bt Biopesticide

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Pengjun ^a   Liu, Yongqiang ^a   Graham, Robert I ^b   Wilson, Kenneth ^b   Wu, Kongming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; BIOPESTICIDE; LIPID; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON BOLLWORM; DENSOVIRUS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PEST CONTROL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SYMBIONT; VIRUS DETECTION; WORM; ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACULOVIRIDAE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DENSOVIRINAE; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

DENSOVIRUS; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACULOVIRIDAE; DENSOVIRUS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; MOTHS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84908328403     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004490     Document Type: Article

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