Accidental Genetic Engineers: Horizontal Sequence Transfer from Parasitoid Wasps to Their Lepidopteran Hosts

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Horizontal gene transfer in the acquisition of novel traits by metazoans

(2014) Luis Boto   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Population genomics supports baculoviruses as vectors of horizontal transfer of insect transposons

(2014) Clément Gilbert et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps

(2013) Brian R. Johnson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Widespread horizontal transfer of retrotransposons

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Insect Phylogenomics: Exploring the Source of Incongruence Using New Transcriptomic Data

(2012) Sabrina Simon et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Horizontal Transfers of Tc1 Elements between Teleost Fishes and Their Vertebrate Parasites, Lampreys

(2012) Shigehiro Kuraku et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Paleovirology and virally derived immunity

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Transient expression of a viral histone H4 inhibits expression of cellular and humoral immune-associated genes in Tribolium castaneum

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The Encapsidated Genome of Microplitis demolitor Bracovirus Integrates into the Host Pseudoplusia includens

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Paleozoic origin of insect large dsDNA viruses

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Deep sequencing of Cotesia vestalis bracovirus reveals the complexity of a polydnavirus genome

(2011) Ya-feng Chen et al.   VIROLOGY

Taming of the shrewd: novel eukaryotic genes from RNA viruses

(2010) Eugene V Koonin   BMC BIOLOGY

Pervasive Horizontal Transfer of Rolling-Circle Transposons among Animals

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Transient expression of specific Cotesia plutellae bracoviral segments induces prolonged larval development of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella

(2010) Bowon Kwon et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

A role for host–parasite interactions in the horizontal transfer of transposons across phyla

(2010) Clément Gilbert et al.   NATURE

Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids

(2010) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

Endogenous Viral Elements in Animal Genomes

(2010) Aris Katzourakis et al.   PLoS Genetics

Analysis of Virion Structural Components Reveals Vestiges of the Ancestral Ichnovirus Genome

(2010) Anne-Nathalie Volkoff et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Sequence and gene organization of 24 circles from the Cotesia plutellae bracovirus genome

(2009) Jae Young Choi et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Retention of the virus-derived sequences in the nuclear genome of grapevine as a potential pathway to virus resistance

(2009) Christophe Bertsch et al.   Biology Direct

Hypothesis for heritable, anti-viral immunity in crustaceans and insects

(2009) Timothy W Flegel   Biology Direct

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

Bracovirus gene products are highly divergent from insect proteins

(2008) Annie Bézier et al.   ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

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

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Endoparasitoid wasp bracovirus-mediated inhibition of hemolin function and lepidopteran host immunosuppression

(2008) Vassiliki Labropoulou et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genomics of mutualistic viruses of Glyptapanteles parasitic wasps

(2008) Christopher A Desjardins et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY