TY - JOUR
T1 - Many evolutionary roads led to virus domestication in ichneumonoid parasitoid wasps
AU - Santos, Bernardo F.
AU - Klopfstein, Seraina
AU - Whitfield, James B.
AU - Sharanowski, Barbara J.
N1 - Anne-Nathalie Volkoff helped with relevant literature and information on the history of research on PDV detection. We gratefully thank Rachel Behm for helping compile and summarize literature in Supplementary Table 1 for Braconidae. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers who provided insightful feedback that improved the manuscript. SK was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 310030_192544). BJS was supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF: DEB-1916788).
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - The investigation of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) has historically focused on only a few lineages of parasitoid wasps, with negative results consistently underreported. Recent studies show that multiple viral lineages were integrated in at least seven instances in Ichneumonoidea and may be much more widespread than previously thought. Increasingly affordable genomic and bioinformatic approaches have made it feasible to search for viral sequences within wasp genomes, opening an extremely promising research avenue. Advances in wasp phylogenetics have shed light on the evolutionary history of EVE integration, although many questions remain. Phylogenetic proximity can be used as a guide to facilitate targeted screening, to estimate the number and age of integration events and to identify taxa involved in major host switches.
AB - The investigation of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) has historically focused on only a few lineages of parasitoid wasps, with negative results consistently underreported. Recent studies show that multiple viral lineages were integrated in at least seven instances in Ichneumonoidea and may be much more widespread than previously thought. Increasingly affordable genomic and bioinformatic approaches have made it feasible to search for viral sequences within wasp genomes, opening an extremely promising research avenue. Advances in wasp phylogenetics have shed light on the evolutionary history of EVE integration, although many questions remain. Phylogenetic proximity can be used as a guide to facilitate targeted screening, to estimate the number and age of integration events and to identify taxa involved in major host switches.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cois.2021.12.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cois.2021.12.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 34896617
AN - SCOPUS:85122836392
SN - 2214-5745
VL - 50
JO - Current Opinion in Insect Science
JF - Current Opinion in Insect Science
M1 - 100861
ER -