Virus in a Parasitoid Wasp: Suppression of the Cellular Immune Response in the Parasitoid's Host
- 6 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 211 (4482), 582-583
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7455695
Abstract
A virus that replicates in the ovary of a parasitoid wasp is injected into the parasitoid's host during oviposition. Successful development of th parasitoid egg within the host depends on the presence of th virus, which acts to suppress the host's immune response (encapsulation) toward the egg. This is an example of obligatory mutualism between a virus and a eukaryotic organism.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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