Expression of Campoletis sonorensis Virus in the Parasitized Host, Heliothis virescens.
Polyadenylated mRNA transcripts of the virus of Campoletis sonorensis were detected in Heliothis virescens host larvae 2 h after the larvae had been parasitized by C. sonorensis females and continued to be present in host larvae through 9 days postparasitization while C. sonorensis developed endoparasitically. cDNAs of viral transcripts present in H. virescens hybridized with only certain C. sonorensis viral DNAs.
Fleming
J A
JA
Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas 77843.
Blissard
G W
GW
Summers
M D
MD
Vinson
S B
SB