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A viral lectin encoded in Cotesia plutellae bracovirus and its immunosuppressive effect on host hemocytes.

Viral cystatin evolution and three-dimensional structure modelling: a case of directional selection acting on a viral protein involved in a host-parasitoid interaction.

Transient expression of an EP1-like gene encoded in Cotesia plutellae bracovirus suppresses the hemocyte population in the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella.

Comparative genomics of mutualistic viruses of Glyptapanteles parasitic wasps.

Molecular evidence for the evolution of ichnoviruses from ascoviruses by symbiogenesis.

A novel polydnavirus protein inhibits the insect prophenoloxidase activation pathway.

Exposure of ichnovirus particles to digitonin leads to enhanced infectivity and induces fusion from without in an in vitro model system.

Transcriptional analysis of polydnaviral genes in the course of parasitization reveals segment-specific patterns.

Inhibition of juvenile hormone esterase activity in Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae) larvae parasitized by Glyptapanteles liparidis (Hymenoptera, Braconidae).

Differential expression of the CrV1 haemocyte inactivation-associated polydnavirus gene in the African maize stem borer Busseola fusca (Fuller) parasitized by two biotypes of the endoparasitoid Cotesia sesamiae (Cameron)

Cloning and characterization of two Campoletis chlorideae ichnovirus vankyrin genes expressed in parasitized host Helicoverpa armigera

Shared and species-specific features among ichnovirus genomes.

Genomic and morphological features of a banchine polydnavirus: comparison with bracoviruses and ichnoviruses.

Microplitis demolitor bracovirus genome segments vary in abundance and are individually packaged in virions

PTP-H2 and PTP-H3 from Microplitis demolitor Bracovirus localize to focal adhesions and are antiphagocytic in insect immune cells.

Genome organization of the Chelonus inanitus polydnavirus: excision sites, spacers and abundance of proviral and excised segments.

Structure and evolution of a proviral locus of Glyptapanteles indiensis bracovirus.

In vitro integration of an ichnovirus genome segment into the genomic DNA of lepidopteran cells.

Characterization of the IkappaB-like gene family in polydnaviruses associated with wasps belonging to different Braconid subfamilies.

Protein tyrosine phosphatases encoded in Cotesia plutellae bracovirus: Sequence analysis, expression profile, and a possible biological role in host immunosuppression