Visualization of polydnavirus sequences in a parasitoid wasp chromosome.
Polydnaviruses, obligatorily associated with endoparasitoid wasps, are unique in that their segmented genome is composed of multiple double-stranded DNA circles. We present here the first cytological evidence that virus segments are integrated in the wasp genome, obtained by using in situ hybridization of virus probes with viral sequences in the chromosomes of a wasp from the braconid family of hymenopterans.
Belle
Elise
E
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte CNRS, Faculté des Sciences, 37200 Tours, France.
Beckage
Nancy E
NE
Rousselet
Jérôme
J
Poirié
Marylène
M
Lemeunier
Françoise
F
Drezen
Jean-Michel
JM
D000818:Animals; D002875:Chromosomes; D015342:DNA Probes; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D005260:Female; D017344:Genes, Insect; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017403:In Situ Hybridization / Q000379:methods; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D018071:Polydnaviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D014764:Viral Proteins; D014863:Wasps / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology
D015342:DNA Probes; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D006023:Glycoproteins; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; C090379:early-expressed protein 1, Cotesia congregata polydnavirus