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00.082. Ascoviridae

References listed in the VIIIth ICTV Report (2005)

Bigot Y., Rabouille A., Doury G., Sizaret., P.Y., Delbost F., Hamelin M.H. and Periquet, G. (1997). Biological and molecular features of the relationship between Diadromus pulchellus ascovirus, a parasitoid hymenopteran wasp (Diadromus pulchellus) and its lepidopteran host, Acrolepiopsis assectella. J. Gen. Virol., 78, 1139-1147.

Bigot Y., Rabouille, A., Sizaret, P.Y., Hamelin, M.H. and Periquet, G. (1997). Particle and genomic characteristics of a new member of the Ascoviridae: Diadromus pulchellus ascovirus. J. Gen. Virol., 78, 1139-1147.

Cheng, X.-W., Carner, G.R. and Arif, B.M. (2000). A new ascovirus from Spodoptera exigua and its relatedness to an isolate from Spodoptera frugiperda. J. Gen. Virol., 81, 3083-3092.

Federici, B.A. (1983). Enveloped double-stranded DNA insect virus with novel structure and cytopathology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80, 7664-7668.

Federici, B.A. and Bigot, Y. (2003). Origin and evolution of polydnaviruses by symbiogenesis of insect DNA viruses in endoparasitic wasps. J. Insect Physiol., 49, 419-432.

Federici, B.A. and Govindarajan, R. (1990). Comparative histopathology of three ascovirus isolates in larval noctuids. J. Invert. Pathol., 56, 300-311

Federici, B.A., Vlak, J.M. and Hamm, J.J. (1990). Comparison of virion structure, protein composition, and genomic DNA of three Ascovirus isolates. J. Gen. Virol., 71, 1661-1668.

Govindarajan, R. and Federici, B.A. (1990). Ascovirus infectivity and the effects of infection on the growth and development of Noctuid larvae. J. Invert. Pathol., 56, 291-299.

Hamm, J.J., Nordlung, D.A. and Marti, O.G. (1985). Effects of a nonoccluded virus of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on the development of a parasitoid, Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Environ. Entomol., 14, 258-261

Hamm, J.J., Pair, S.D., and Marti, O.G. (1986). Incidence and host range of a new ascovirus isolated from fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Fla. Entomol., 69, 525-531.

Hamm, J.J., Styer, E.L. and Federici, B.A. (1998). Comparison of field-collected ascovirus isolates by DNA hybridization, host range, and histopathology. J. Invert. Pathol., 72, 138-146.

Pellock, B.J., Lu, A., Meagher, R.B., Weise, M.J. and Miller, L.K. (1996). Sequence, function and molecular analysis of an ascovirus DNA polymerase gene. Virology, 216, 146-157.

Stasiak, K., Demattei, M.-V., Federici, B.A. and Bigot, Y. (2000). Phylogenetic position of the DpAV-4a ascovirus DNA polymerase among viruses with a large double-stranded DNA genome. J. Gen. Virol., 81, 3059-3072.

Contributed by

Federici, B.A., Bigot, Y., Granados, R.R., Hamm, J.J., Miller, L.K., Newton, L, Stasiak, K. and Vlak, J.M.


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