41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology
and 9th International Conference on Bacillus thuringiensis

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF DNA VIRUSES

Organizer: Elisabeth Herniou

Jonathan Filee, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France

Evidence for extensive lateral acquisition of cellular genes by nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses

Jean-Michel Claverie, CNRS, Marseilles, France

Mimivirus and Mimiviridae: Toward a new family of large DNA viruses

Robert Harrison, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA

Structural divergence among genomes of closely related baculoviruses and its implications for baculovirus evolution

Yongjie Wang, DLR Rheinpfalz, Germany

The genome of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus: a missing link that solves some mysteries of invertebrate virus evolution

Jean-Michel Drezen, IRBI, Université Tours, France    

Wasp-bracovirus associations: The grail quest for the ancestor virus