Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the advances in iridovirus research over the
past decade. It summarizes salient features of the iridovirus research studies, and discusses …

Background In 2010 Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), again devastated honey bee
colonies in the USA, indicating that the problem is neither diminishing nor has it been …

Members of the family Iridoviridae (iridovirids) are large dsDNA viruses that infect both
invertebrate and vertebrate ectotherms and whose symptoms range in severity from minor …

Invertebrate iridescent viruses (IIVs) are icosahedral DNA viruses that infect invertebrates,
mainly insects and terrestrial isopods, in damp and aquatic habitats. Exhaustive searches of …

Invertebrate iridoviruses (IIVs), while mostly described in a wide range of invertebrate hosts,
have also been repeatedly detected in diagnostic samples from poikilothermic vertebrates …

Advances in viral metagenomics have paved the way of virus discovery by making the
exploration of viruses in any ecosystem possible. Applied to agroecosystems, such an …

Iridovirid infection is associated with the catastrophic loss in aquaculture industry and the
population decline of wild amphibians and reptiles, but none of the iridovirid life cycles have …

Chilo iridescent virus (CIV) is the type species for genus Iridovirus, and belongs to the family
Iridoviridae. Members of this family are large, isometric, cytoplasmic DNA viruses. Our …

Chilo iridescent virus (CIV) is the type species for the family Iridoviridae, which are large,
isometric, cytoplasmic dsDNA viruses. We examined the mechanism of apoptosis induction …

Chilo iridescent virus (CIV) belongs to the family Iridoviridae, which are icosahedral
cytoplasmic DNA viruses with large, linear, and circularly permuted genomes. Previous …