Parasitoid Viruses

Parasitoid Virus Symbionts and Venoms

Jean-Michel and Nancy Beckage, editors

The Discovery of the Polydnaviruses and the Influence of Dr. George Salt

S. Bradleigh Vinson

SECTION 1: PARASITOID POLYDNAVIRUSES: EVOLUTION, GENOMICS, AND SYSTEMATICS

PART I: INSIGHTS INTO POLYDNAVIRUS EVOLUTION AND GENOMICS

1. The Origins and Early History of Polydnavirus Research

Peter J. Krell and Don B. Stoltz

2. Evolutionary Progenitors of Bracoviruses

Jean-Michel Drezen, Elisabeth Herniou, and Annie Bézier

3. The Organization of Genes Encoding Ichnovirus Structural Proteins

Anne-Nathalie Volkoff, Jean-Michel Drezen, Michel Cusson and Bruce A. Webb

4. Genomics and Replication of Polydnaviruses

Catherine Dupuy, Dawn Gundersen-Rindal, and Michel Cusson

5. Evolution and origin of polydnavirus virulence genes

Elisabeth Huguet, Céline Serbielle and Sébastien JM Moreau

6. Genomics of banchine ichnoviruses: insights into their relationship to bracoviruses and campoplegine ichnoviruses

Michel Cusson, Don Stoltz, Renée Lapointe, Catherine Béliveau, Audrey Nisole, A.-Nathalie Volkoff, Jean-Michel Drezen, Halim Maaroufi, Roger C. Levesque

7. Molecular Systematics of Wasp and Polydnavirus Genomes and their Co-evolution

James Whitfield and Jaqueline M. O'Connor

8. Integration of Polydnavirus DNA into Host Cellular Genomic DNA

Dawn Gundersen-Rindal

9. Unusual Viral Genomes: Mimivirus and the Polydnaviruses

Christopher A. Desjardins

10. Maintenance of Specialized Parasitoid Populations by Polydnaviruses

Antoine Branca, Catherine Gitau, and Stéphane Dupas

PART II: THE BIOLOGICAL ROLES OF POLYDNAVIRUS GENE PRODUCTS

11. Polydnavirus Gene Expression Profiling: What We Know Now

Michael R. Strand

12. Polydnavirus Gene

"To avoid over use of pesticides, biological control programs employ the more environmentally safe alternative of parasitoids, which are insects that kill their insect hosts in pre-reproductive stages. At work are viruses that have evolved intimate associations with parasitoids<-->symbiotic viruses integrated into the wasp chromosomal DNA (polydnaviruses), and parasitoid venoms, which are of interest to the pharmaceutical and medical communities. The subject has been addressed in journals, but the editors perceived that this field was ripe for a book-length publication. Beckage (emerita; entomology, cell biology, neuroscience, U. of California- Riverside) and Drezen (insect biology, Universite Francois Rabelais, France) enlisted 22 contributed chapters and arranged material in sections on parasitoid polydnaviruses<-->evolution, genomics, and systematics; unique attributes of viruses and virus-like particles associated with parasitoids; venoms; and the future<-->applications in agriculture. Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier."--Reference and Research Book News, October 2012

"To avoid over use of pesticides, biological control programs employ the more environmentally safe alternative of parasitoids, which are insects that kill their insect hosts in pre-reproductive stages. At work are viruses that have evolved intimate associations with parasitoids<-->symbiotic viruses integrated into the wasp chromosomal DNA (polydnaviruses), and parasitoid venoms, which are of interest to the pharmaceutical and medical communities. The subject has been addressed in journals, but the editors perceived that this field was ripe for a book-length publication. Beckage (emerita; entomology, cell biology, neuroscience, U. of California- Riverside) and Drezen (insect biology, Université Francois Rabelais, France) enlisted 22 contributed chapters and arranged material in sections on parasitoid polydnaviruses<-->evolution, genomics, and systematics; unique attributes of viruses and virus-like particles associated with parasitoids; venoms; and the future<-->applications in agriculture. Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier."--Reference and Research Book News, October 2012