Conserved Viral Transcription Plays a Key Role in Virus-Like Particle Production of the Parasitoid Wasp <i>Venturia canescens</i>.

ABSTRACT: Nudiviruses are large double-stranded DNA viruses related to baculoviruses known to be endogenized in the genomes of certain parasitic wasp species. These wasp-virus associations allow the production of viral particles or virus-like particles that ensure wasp parasitism success within lepidopteran hosts. Venturia canescens is an ichneumonid wasp belonging to the Campopleginae subfamily that has endogenized nudivirus genes belonging to the Alphanudivirus genus to produce "virus-like particles" (Venturia canescens virus-like particles [VcVLPs]), which package proteic virulence factors. The main aim of this study was to determine whether alphanudivirus gene functions have been conserved following endogenization. The expression dynamics of alphanudivirus genes was monitore

SUBMITTER: Cerqueira de Araujo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9278141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature