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It is present as a mid-level repeated element in its host insect genome (about 50 copies/genome) [ 19, 24], it encodes a set of proteins (gag, pol, env) with features similar to those of well-characterized retrovirus proteins [ 17] and it is capable of producing virus-like particles [ 25].
This occurs in a few families of parasitoid wasps (Tremblay and Caltagirone 1973; Strand and Grbic 1997), in which cells derived from polar bodies form a membrane around the yolkless egg that is deposited in the wasp's insect host (which is often a scale insect!)
Is a scale insect's bacteriome a kind of sibling?
Evidence suggests that at least some of these retrovirus-like elements are infectious and have been classified as insect retroviruses [ 13, 14, 15] or errantiviruses [ 16].
Diapause typically involves as a period of developmental arrest during which an insect is resistant to environmental influences on developmental progression [ 2 ] . Sexually-produced A. pisum embryos do not demonstrate developmental arrest.