Rediscovering “Baculovirus-A” (Johnson, 1976): The complete genome of ‘Callinectes sapidus nudivirus’

Applications of Molecular Diagnostics for Quality Control in Rearing of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae for Experimental Use

“…On the other hand, metagenomics results from dead larvae show high relative abundance of Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) nucleopolyhedrovirus, an Alphabaculovirus genus (Wang et al 2018; Li et al 2019), which contains insect-specific viruses with double-stranded large circular DNA genomes of 80 to 180 kb (Blissard & Theilmann 2018). The H. zea nudivirus is a non-occluded baculovirus, a group more recently classified as nudiviruses and include a diverse group of arthropod-specific large DNA viruses, which replicate in the nucleus in various host species (Bojko et al 2022). All these results, and the finding of sequences related to tomato leaf curl Laos virus, a begomovirus with a circular single-stranded DNA genome and also transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) (Pan et al 2017), suggests DNA viral acquisition or persistency during insect rearing, however, more research is necessary to supports this conclusion (Pan et al 2017).…”