38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

August 7-11, 2005  Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A
   

Virus Division Symposium

POLYDNAVIRUS AND ASCOVIRUS
Organizers: Peter Krell, University of Guelph, Canada, and Michel Cusson, Natural Resource Canada

James Whitfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
A polydnavirus paradox: cophylogeny and mosiac genomes

Bruce Webb, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Polydnavirus genomics: form and function of mutualistic insect viruses from parasitic wasps

Xiao-Wen Cheng, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
Inferring evolution through the biology of ascoviruses

Nancy Beckage, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
The biology of polydnaviruses and their interactions with insect hosts