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Polydnavirus vs Polydnavirion - What's the difference?

polydnavirus | polydnavirion |

As nouns the difference between polydnavirus and polydnavirion

is that polydnavirus is an insect virus of family polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome while polydnavirion is the virion of a polydnavirus.

polydnavirus

English

(wikipedia polydnavirus)

Noun

(polydnaviruses)
  • An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 13, Donald B. Stoltz & James B. Whitfield, VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses, Science citation
    • , passage=Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses (one of the two major recognized polydnavirus lineages) and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance. }}

    polydnavirion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The virion of a polydnavirus