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Viruses hitch a ride to greater infectivity in insects
Description: Scientists have discovered evidence of one virus parasitising another, improving its infectivity or ability to enter, survive and multiply in a host. Specifically, the iflavirus hitch-hikes on the back of the baculovirus, a virus used since the 1940s as the basis for biological pesticides in crop fields, meaning the work has potential implications in plague control and ecology. [Source: R&I World]
URL: http://ruvid.org/ri-world/viruses-hitching-a-ride-to-greater-infectivity/
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Source: R&I World
Publish Date: 4/13/2016
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