Baculoviruses comprise a diverse group of pathogens
infectious for members of the insect orders Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera
and Diptera. Of the three subgroups, two (subgroup A, nuclear
polyhedrosis virus (NPV) and subgroup B, granulosis virus (GV) are
occluded in a crystalline protein structure while the remaining
subgroup (subgroup C, non-occluded virus)...
The genome of the multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus of
Orgyia pseudotsugata (OpMNPV) was mapped by examining overlapping
Hindlll fragments from cosmid clones which had been constructed
from partial Hindlll digests of viral DNA. Five OpMNPV cosmid
clones containing fragments encompassing the entire OpMNPV genome
were hybridized to blots of DNA...
Replication of plasmid molecules containing either a left-end or a
right-end adenovirus origin was investigated. When the plasmids were
linearized to expose their respective adenovirus termini, mixed, and
transfected with helper adenovirus DNA into the human 293 cell line, a
new molecule was detected. The new molecule was the size...
While current theories describing the insect-plant interaction
have emphasized the biochemical aspects of the relationship,
morphological components can also play a significant role in
determining which plants or tissues are susceptible to insect attack.
Xylem sap on which spittlebugs feed may lack many of the plant
compounds responsible for host...
The Bransfield Strait is the narrow, late Tertiary to Quaternary marginal basin separating the South Shetland Islands from the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc. Quaternary volcanism in the strait is tholeiitic to mildly alkaline, and contrasts chemically with the pre-Quaternary calc-alkaline arc volcanism. Geochemical evidence presented here...