Bracovirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Polydnaviridae. Bracoviruses are an ancient symbiotic virus contained in parasitic braconid wasps that evolved off of the nudivirus about 190 million years ago and has been evolving at least 100 million years.[1] It is one of two genera belonging to the Polydnaviridae family, Ichnovirus being the other genus. There are 32 species in this genus.[2][3]
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genus Bracovirus contains the following 32 species; ICTV version 1999a-2020: Apanteles crassicornis bracovirus Apanteles fumiferanae bracovirus Ascogaster...
become less able to move and adhere to the larvae. Microplitis demolitor Bracovirus (MdBV) induce apoptosis of hematocytes, thanks to its gene PTP-H2. It...
otherwise take a long time to decompose. In 2015 it was reported that wasp bracovirus DNA was present in Lepidoptera such as monarch butterflies, silkworms...
xylostella. Cotesia vestalis suffers from a polydnavirus, Cotesia vestalis bracovirus. "Species Cotesia vestalis (Haliday)". University of Kentucky. Retrieved...
butterflies and silkworms) have been genetically modified in nature by the wasp bracovirus. The sterile insect technique (SIT) was developed conceptually in the...
have been genetically modified by horizontal gene transfer from the wasp bracovirus. Bites from insects in the family Reduviidae (assassin bugs) can, via...
previously known as Tranosema rostrale bracovirus was moved to ichnoviriform from bracoviriform (bracovirus) in 2021. Ichnoviriform fugitivi/Hyposoter...
whether its drive to do so was also restored. The Cotesia congregata bracovirus has one of the largest genomes known of any virus (567,670 base pairs)...
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Magrioti, C; Swevers, L; Iatrou, K (October 2008). "Endoparasitoid wasp bracovirus-mediated inhibition of hemolin function and lepidopteran host immunosuppression"...
order to drive protein synthesis. Other viruses, like Cotesia plutellae bracovirus (CpBV), that favor cap-independent translation, will take advantage of...
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