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Fig. 1 | Epigenetics & Chromatin

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From: Viral histones: pickpocket’s prize or primordial progenitor?

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Life cycle of Cotesia and bracovirus. Female Cotesia wasps lay eggs in larvae of moths such as Plutella xylostella and also inject bracovirus virion particles carrying DNA circles that integrate into the chromosomes of the parasitized larvae and favor development of the wasp larvae over the moth larvae. The bracovirus provirus is resident in the wasp genome and transmitted directly to offspring

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