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Abstract

Multipartite nucleic acid-containing virus-like particles, known as polydnaviruses, are special structures produced by female parasitoid wasps to deliver wasp components into the body of their host at oviposition. The particles confer protection for the developing parasitoid by passive and active means. Although several genes expressed from the circular DNA of these particles have been identified from various host–parasitoid systems, there is not much known about the structural proteins of these particles. Here we report on two genes encoding particle proteins with similarities to molecular chaperones, calreticulin and heat-shock protein 70.

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