Systematic analysis of a wasp parasitism arsenal

Partial venom gland transcriptome of a Drosophila parasitoid wasp, Leptopilina heterotoma, reveals novel and shared bioactive profiles with stinging Hymenoptera

(2013) Mary E. Heavner et al.   GENE

Extensive inter- and intraspecific venom variation in closely related parasites targeting the same host: The case of Leptopilina parasitoids of Drosophila

(2013) Dominique Colinet et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Venom gland extract is not required for successful parasitism in the polydnavirus-associated endoparasitoid Hyposoter didymator (Hym. Ichneumonidae) despite the presence of numerous novel and conserved venom proteins

(2013) Tristan Dorémus et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

(2013) E. A. Herniou et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrative Approach Reveals Composition of Endoparasitoid Wasp Venoms

(2013) Jeremy Goecks et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive Selection on Bracovirus Genomes Drives the Specialization of Cotesia Parasitoid Wasps

(2013) Séverine Jancek et al.   PLoS One

Polydnavirus-wasp associations: evolution, genome organization, and function

(2013) Michael R Strand et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Mutualistic Polydnaviruses Share Essential Replication Gene Functions with Pathogenic Ancestors

(2013) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Parasitoid polydnaviruses: evolution, pathology and applications

(2012) Dawn Gundersen-Rindal et al.   BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Deep Sequencing Identifies Viral and Wasp Genes with Potential Roles in Replication of Microplitis demolitor Bracovirus

(2012) G. R. Burke et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms

(2012) Nicholas R. Casewell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Polydnavirus Ank Proteins Bind NF-κB Homodimers and Inhibit Processing of Relish

(2012) Kavita Bitra et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Polydnaviruses as Symbionts and Gene Delivery Systems

(2012) Michael R. Strand et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Polydnaviruses of Parasitic Wasps: Domestication of Viruses To Act as Gene Delivery Vectors

(2012) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   Insects

Transcriptomic profiling of Microplitis demolitor bracovirus reveals host, tissue and stage-specific patterns of activity

(2011) K. Bitra et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Venom Proteins from Endoparasitoid Wasps and Their Role in Host-Parasite Interactions

(2010) Sassan Asgari et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Proteomic analysis of the venom from the endoparasitoid wasp Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

(2010) Jia-Ying Zhu et al.   ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

The venom composition of the parasitic wasp Chelonus inanitus resolved by combined expressed sequence tags analysis and proteomic approach

(2010) Bruno Vincent et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Insights into the venom composition of the ectoparasitoid waspNasonia vitripennisfrom bioinformatic and proteomic studies

(2010) D. C. de Graaf et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A venom metalloproteinase from the parasitic waspEulophus pennicornisis toxic towards its host, tomato moth (Lacanobia oleracae)

(2009) D. R. G. Price et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Infection by a symbiotic polydnavirus induces wasting and inhibits metamorphosis of the moth Pseudoplusia includens

(2009) A. J. Pruijssers et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Polydnaviruses of Braconid Wasps Derive from an Ancestral Nudivirus

(2009) A. Bezier et al.   SCIENCE

A serpin from the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardi targets the Drosophila phenoloxidase cascade

(2008) Dominique Colinet et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The constituents of Microctonus sp. parasitoid venoms

(2008) A. M. Crawford et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The Viral Protein Egf1.0 Is a Dual Activity Inhibitor of Prophenoloxidase-activating Proteinases 1 and 3 fromManduca sexta

(2008) Zhiqiang Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Biochemical isolation of an insect haemocyte anti-aggregation protein from the venom of the endoparasitic wasp, Pimpla hypochondriaca, and identification of its gene

(2008) Elaine H. Richards et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Phylogeny of the parasitic microgastroid subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on sequence data from seven genes, with an improved time estimate of the origin of the lineage

(2008) Nicholas Murphy et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS

Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

(2008) M. A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative genomics of mutualistic viruses of Glyptapanteles parasitic wasps

(2008) Christopher A Desjardins et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY