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The Baculovirus Uses a Captured Host Phosphatase to Induce Enhanced Locomotory Activity in Host Caterpillars

The baculovirus is a classic example of a parasite that alters the behavior or physiology of its host so that progeny transmission is maximized. Baculoviruses do this by inducing enhanced locomotory activity (ELA) that causes the host caterpillars to climb to the upper foliage of plants. We previous...

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Autores principales: Katsuma, Susumu, Koyano, Yasue, Kang, WonKyung, Kokusho, Ryuhei, Kamita, Shizuo George, Shimada, Toru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22496662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002644

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