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polydnavirus

polydnavirus noun: an insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.

Noun

polydnavirus (plural polydnaviruses)

  1. An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
    • Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses (one of the two major recognized polydnavirus lineages) and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance.2009 February 13, Donald B. Stoltz, James B. Whitfield, “VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI, pages 884–885

Forms of polydnavirus

pluralpolydnaviruses

Words formed from polydnavirus

Questions about polydnavirus

What does polydnavirus mean?
Polydnavirus means an insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
What part of speech is polydnavirus?
Polydnavirus is a noun.
What is the plural of polydnavirus?
The plural of polydnavirus is polydnaviruses.

Words near polydnavirus in the dictionary

  1. polydiversity
  2. polydivisible
  3. polydnaviral
  4. polydnavirion
  5. polydnavirions
  6. polydnavirus
  7. polydnaviruses
  8. polydodecahedron
  9. polydodecahedrons
  10. polydolopimorphian
  11. polydolopimorphians

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