Rep virulence genes have been recruited convergently by nudivirus-derived Virus-Like Particles and ichnoviruses of Campoplegine wasps
Alexandra Cerqueira de Araujo, Matthieu Leobold, Marie Louise Cariou…·Elisabeth Huguet
The paper shows that nudivirus-derived VLPs and ichnoviruses in Campopleginae wasps independently recruit virulence genes, with different protein content but similar functional roles in parasitism.