Baculovirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The baculoviruses are a family of large rod-shaped
viruses that can be divided to two genera:
nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV) and
granuloviruses (GV). While GVs contain only one nucleo
capsid per envelope, NPVs contain either single (SNPV) or multiple (MNPV) nucleocapsids per envelope. The enveloped virions are further occluded in
granulin matrix in GVs and polyhedrin for NPVs. Moreover, GV have only single virion per granulin occlusion body while polyhedra contains multiple embedded virions. [1]
Baculoviruses have very species-specific tropisms among the invertebrates with over 600 host species having been described. Immature (larval) forms of moth species are the most common hosts, but these viruses have also been found infecting sawflies, mosquitoes, and shrimp. They are not known to replicate in mammalian or other vertebrate animal cells. Baculoviruses contain circular double-stranded genome ranging from 80-180 kbp."
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