Simple Summary The Insect Pest Control (IPC) Section and its associated laboratory (IPCL)
is part of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. Its …

Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are the cyclical vectors of the trypanosomes, which cause
human African trypanosomosis (HAT) or slee** sickness in humans and African animal …

Large dsDNA viruses from the Naldaviricetes class are currently composed of four viral
families infecting insects and/or crustaceans. Since the 1970s, particles described as …

Baculovirus occlusion-derived virus (ODV) infects insect midgut cells under alkaline
conditions, a process mediated by highly conserved per os infectivity factors (PIFs), P74 …

Several lineages of endoparasitoid wasps, which develop inside the body of other insects,
have domesticated viruses, used as delivery tools of essential virulence factors for the …

Some species of parasitic wasps have domesticated viral machineries to deliver
immunosuppressive factors to their hosts. Up to now, all described cases fall into the …

Abstract The Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus (OrNV) is a dsDNA virus with enveloped, rod-
shaped virions. Its genome is 127,615 bp in size and contains 139 predicted protein-coding …

Many species of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are infected with a virus that causes
salivary gland hypertrophy (SGH), and flies with SGH symptoms have a reduced fecundity …

Parasites are sometimes able to manipulate the behavior of their hosts. However, the
molecular cues underlying this phenomenon are poorly documented. We previously …

The Hytrosaviridae comprises a family of dsDNA viruses with a circular genome of 120–
190kbp. They are exclusively associated with Diptera, such as the tsetse fly, the house fly …