The Viromes of Six Ecosystem Service Provider Parasitoid Wasps.

ABSTRACT: Parasitoid wasps are fundamental insects for the biological control of agricultural pests. Despite the importance of wasps as natural enemies for more sustainable and healthy agriculture, the factors that could impact their species richness, abundance, and fitness, such as viral diseases, remain almost unexplored. Parasitoid wasps have been studied with regard to the endogenization of viral elements and the transmission of endogenous viral proteins that facilitate parasitism. However, circulating viruses are poorly characterized. Here, RNA viromes of six parasitoid wasp species are studied using public libraries of next-generation sequencing through an integrative bioinformatics pipeline. Our analyses led to the identification of 18 viruses classified into 10 families (Iflaviridae, Endo

SUBMITTER: Caldas-Garcia GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10747428 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature