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Persistence and coexistence of engineered baculoviruses.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Jun 2005
Bonsall M B, O'Reilly D R, Cory J S, Hails R S
Abstract excerpt
Baculoviruses, and in particular, the nucleopolyhedroviruses infect a wide range of arthropod hosts and have the potential to be used as biopesticides. However, one of the major drawbacks with these pathogens as biocontrol agents is that they have a slow response time. Alterations to the speed of kill and pathogen life history characteristics can influence the competitive outcome and persistence between wildtype...
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