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polydnaviruses

polydnaviruses is the plural of polydnavirus.

Meaning of polydnavirus

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

Questions about polydnaviruses

What is polydnaviruses the plural of?
Polydnaviruses is the plural of polydnavirus.

Words near polydnaviruses in the dictionary

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

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