English

Noun

polydnavirus ‎(plural polydnaviruses)

1. An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
   • 2009 February 13, Donald B. Stoltz & James B. Whitfield, “VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, DOI:10.1126/science.1169808, pages 884-885:

     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.