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Comparative genomics of mutualistic viruses of Glyptapanteles parasitic wasps

Christopher A Desjardins1,6*, Dawn E Gundersen-Rindal2, Jessica B Hostetler1, Luke J Tallon1,7, Douglas W Fadrosh1,8, Roger W Fuester3, Monica J Pedroni2,9, Brian J Haas1,10, Michael C Schatz4, Kristine M Jones1,7, Jonathan Crabtree1,7, Heather Forberger1 and Vishvanath Nene1,5

Author Affiliations

1 J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

2 USDA-ARS Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA

3 USDA-ARS Beneficial Insect Introduction Research Laboratory, Newark, DE 19713, USA

4 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

5 Institute for Genome Sciences and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

6 Current address: Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA

7 Current address: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

8 Current address: J Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92121, USA

9 Current address: Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, WA 99164, USA

10 Current address: The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R183 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r183

Published: 30 December 2008

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Molecular evolutionary analyses of GiBV and GfBV.

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