DIVERSITY, GENOMES AND INSECTS-MICROORGANISMS INTERACTIONS RESEARCH UNIT, MARC RAVALLEC(See A. Pichon et al., “Recurrent DNA virus domestication leading to different parasite virulence strategies,” Science Advances, 2015.)
Image of the Day: Playing Defense
Virus-like particles (purple) bud from the oviduct cells of a parasitoid wasp (Venturia canescens) to eventually shield the eggs from a host’s immune response.

