Recent evidence from genome sequence analyses demands a substantial revision of the
taxonomy and classification of the family Baculoviridae. Comparisons of 29 baculovirus …

UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) are major phase II enzymes of a detoxification system
evolved in all kingdoms of life. Lipophilic endobiotics such as hormones and xenobiotics …

Environmental genomics can describe all forms of organisms—cellular and viral—present in
a community. The analysis of such eco-systems biology data relies heavily on reference …

RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary change
in real time. The study of viral evolution is especially topical given the growing awareness …

PCR amplification of the highly conserved baculovirus genes late expression factor 8 (lef-8),
late expression factor 9 (lef-9) and polyhedrin/granulin (polh/gran) combined with molecular …

Parasitoids introduce various virulence factors when parasitism occurs, and some taxa
generate teratocytes to manipulate the host immune system and metabolic homeostasis for …

Baculovirus genomes are covalently closed circles of double stranded-DNA varying in size
between 80 and 180 kilobase-pair. The genomes of more than fourty-one baculoviruses …

During the last several decades corals have been in decline and at least one-third of all
coral species are now threatened with extinction. Coral disease has been a major …

Theiler's disease is an acute hepatitis in horses that is associated with the administration of
equine blood products; its etiologic agent has remained unknown for nearly a century. Here …

To understand how extant viruses interact with their hosts, we need a historical framework of
their evolutionary association. Akin to retrovirus or hepadnavirus viral fossils present in …