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Publications on Baculovirus Biology & Ecology (back to Trevor Williams homepage) | |||||||||
Goulson, D., Hails, R.S., Williams, T., Hirst, M.L., Vasconcelos, S.D., Green, B.M., Carty, T.M. & Cory, J.S. (1995) Transmission dynamics of a virus in a stage-structured insect population. Ecology 76, 392-401. | |||||
Vasconcelos, S.D., Williams, T., Hails, R.S. & Cory, J.S. (1996) Prey selection and baculovirus dissemination by carabid predators of Lepidoptera. Ecological Entomology 21, 98-104. | |||||
Richards, A., Cory, J., Speight, M. & Williams, T. (1999) Foraging in a pathogen reservoir can lead to local host population extinction: a case study of a Lepidoptera-virus interaction. Oecologia 118, 29-38. | |||||
Chapman, J.W., Williams, T., Escribano, A., Caballero, P., Cave, R.D. & Goulson, D. (1999) Age-related cannibalism and horizontal transmission of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus in larval Spodoptera frugiperda. Ecological Entomology 24, 268-275. (See Others section for additional studies on cannibalism) | |||||
Escribano, A., Williams, T., Goulson, D., Cave, R.D. & Caballero, P. (2000) Parasitoid-pathogen-pest interactions of Chelonus insularis, Campoletis sonorensis and a nucleopolyhedrovirus in Spodoptera frugiperda larvae. Biological Control 19, 265-273. | |||||
Escribano, A., Williams, T., Goulson, D., Cave, R.D., Chapman, J.W. & Caballero, P. (2000) Effect of parasitism on a nucleopolyhedrovirus amplified in Spodoptera frugiperda larvae parasitized by Campoletis sonorensis. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 97, 257-264. | |||||
Castillejos, V., García, L., Cisneros, J., Goulson, D., Caballero, P., Cave, R.D. & Williams, T. (2001) The potential of Chrysoperla rufilabris and Doru taeniatum as agents for dispersal of Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus in maize. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 98, 353-359. | |||||
Escribano, A., Williams, T., Goulson, D., Cave, R.D., Chapman, J.W. & Caballero, P. (2001) Consequences of interspecific competition on the virulence and genetic composition of a nucleopolyhedrovirus in Spodoptera frugiperda larvae parasitized by Chelonus insularis. Biocontrol Science & Technology 11, 649 - 662. | |||||
Vasconcelos, S.D., Cory, J.S., Speight, M.R. & Williams, T. (2002) Host stage structure and baculovirus transmission in Mamestra brassicae L. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae: a laboratory examination of small scale epizootics. Neotropical Entomology 31, 391-396. | |||||
López-Ferber, M., Simón, O., Williams, T., & Caballero, P. (2003) Defective or effective? Mutualistic interactions between virus genotypes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 270, 2249-2255. | |||||
Simón, O., Williams, T., López-Ferber, M., & Caballero, P. (2004) Genetic structure of a Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus population: high prevalence of deletion genotypes. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 70, 5579-5588. | |||||
Simón, O., Williams, T., López-Ferber, M., & Caballero, P. (2004) Virus entry or the primary infection cycle are not the principal determinants of host specificity of Spodoptera spp. nucleopolyhedroviruses. Journal of General Virology 85, 2845-2855. | |||||
Simón, O., Gutiérrez, S., Williams, T., Caballero, P. & López-Ferber, M. (2005) Nucleotide sequence and transcriptional analysis of the pif gene of Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV). Virus Research 108, 213-220. | |||||
Simón, O., Chevenet, F., Williams, T., Caballero, P. & López-Ferber, M. (2005) Physical and partial genetic map of Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) genome. Virus Genes 30, 403-417. | |||||
Simón, O., Williams, T., López-Ferber, M. & Caballero, P. (2005) Functional importance of deletion mutant genotypes in an insect nucleopolyhedrovirus population. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 71, 4254-4262. | |||||
Martínez, A.M., Williams, T., López-Ferber, M. & Caballero, P. (2005) Optical brighteners do not influence covert baculovirus infection of Spodoptera frugiperda. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 71, 1668-1670. | |||||
Simón, O., Williams, T., Caballero, P. & López-Ferber, M. (2006) Dynamics of deletion genotypes in an experimental insect virus population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273, 783-790. | |||||
Murillo, R., Muñoz, D., Williams, T., Mugeta, N. & Caballero, P. (2006) Application of the PCR-RFLP method for the rapid differentiation of Spodoptera exigua nucleopolyhedrovirus genotypes. Journal of Viological Methods 135, 1–8 | |||||
Murillo, R., Elvira, S., Muñoz, D., Williams, T., & Caballero, P. (2006) Genetic and phenotypic variability in Spodoptera exigua nucleopolyhedrovirus isolates from greenhouse soils in southern Spain. Biological Control 38, 157-165. | |||||
Christian, P., Richards, A.R. & Williams, T. (2006) Differential adsorption of occluded and non-occluded insect pathogenic viruses to soil forming minerals. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 72, 4648-4652. | |||||
Murillo, R., Muñoz, D., Ruíz-Portero, M.C., Alcázar, M.D., Belda, J.E., Williams, T. & Caballero, P. (2007) Abundance and genetic structure of nucleopolyhedrovirus populations in greenhouse substrate reservoirs. Biological Control 42, 216-225. | |||||
Simón, O., Williams, T., Cabrera-Asensio, A., Ros, S., Gaya, A., Caballero, P. & Possee, R.D. (2008) Sf29 gene of Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus is a viral factor that determines the number of virions in occlusion bodies. Journal of Virology 82, 7897-7904. | |||||
Clavijo, G., Williams, T., Simón, O., Muñoz, D., Cerutti, M., López-Ferber, M. & Caballero, P. (2009) Mixtures of complete and pif1- and pif2-deficient genotypes are required for increased potency of an insect nucleopolyhedrovirus. Journal of Virology 83, 5127-5136. | |||||
Clavijo, G., Williams, T., Muñoz, D., López-Ferber, M. & Caballero, P. (2009). Entry into midgut epithelial cells is a key step in the selection of genotypes in a nucleopolyhedrovirus. Virologica Sinica 24, 350-358. | |||||
Simón, O., Williams, T., Possee, R.D., López-Ferber, M. & Caballero, P. (2010) Stability of a Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus deletion recombinant during serial passage in insects. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 76, 803-809. | |||||
Clavijo, G., Williams, T., Muñoz, D., Caballero, P. & López-Ferber, M. (2010) Mixed genotype transmission bodies and virions contribute to the maintenance of diversity in an insect virus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 943-951. | |||||
Cabodevilla, O., Ibañez, I., Simón, O., Murillo, R., Caballero, P. & Williams, T. (2011) Occlusion body pathogenicity, virulence and productivity traits vary with transmission strategy in a nucleopolyhedrovirus. Biological Control 56, 184-192. | |||||
Simón, O., Palma, L., Beperet, I., Muñoz, D., López-Ferber, M., Caballero, P. & Williams, T. (2011) Sequence comparison between three geographically distinct Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus isolates: detecting positively selected genes. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 107, 33-42. | |||||
Cabodevilla, O., Villar, E., Virto, C., Murillo, R., Williams, T. & Caballero, P. (2011) Intra- and intergenerational persistence of an insect nucleopolyhedrovirus: adverse effects of sublethal disease on host development, reproduction and susceptibility to superinfection. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77, 2954-2960. | |||||
Simón, O., Palma, L., Williams, T., López-Ferber, M., & Caballero, P. (2012) Analysis of a naturally-occurring deletion mutant of Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus reveals sf58 as a new per os infectivity factor of lepidopteran-infecting baculoviruses. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 109, 117-126. | |||||
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