Pathways of nucleopolyhedrosis virus infection in the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar

Kathleen Shields

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Pathways of nucleopolyhedrosis virus infection in the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Kathleen Shields

Year:

1985

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Grimble, David G.; Lewis, Franklin B., coords. Proceedings, Symposium: Microbial control of spruce budworms and gypsy moths; 1984 April 10-12; Windsor Locks, CT. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-100. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 123-124

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Abstract

Gypsy moth nucleopolyhedrosis virus polyhedral inclusion bodies dissolve slowly in host digestive fluids, in vitro. Infectious viral material is in the hemocoel two hours after ingestion of inclusion bodies. Hemocytes produce and release nucleocapsids throughout the course of infection, but in the fat body, nearly all nucleocapsids are enveloped and occluded.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, Symposium: Microbial control of spruce budworms and gypsy moths

Citation

Shields, K. S. 1985. Pathways of nucleopolyhedrosis virus infection in the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar. In: Grimble, David G.; Lewis, Franklin B., coords. Proceedings, Symposium: Microbial control of spruce budworms and gypsy moths; 1984 April 10-12; Windsor Locks, CT. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-100. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 123-124