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Expression of a peroral infection factor determines pathogenicity and population structure in an insect virus.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Simón Oihane, Williams Trevor, Cerutti Martine, Caballero Primitivo, López-Ferber Miguel
Abstract excerpt
A Nicaraguan isolate of Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus is being studied as a possible biological insecticide. This virus exists as a mixture of complete and deletion genotypes; the latter depend on the former for the production of an essential per os transmission factor (pif1) in coinfected cells. We hypothesized that the virus population was structured to account for the prevalence of pif1...
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