MICI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Baculoviridae, Rna Splicing, Simple Machine
8 Jul 2017
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Caterpillars normally hide in cracks of trees in order to evade predators. Interestingly, when infected by a virus called baculovirus , caterpillars will expose themselves to predators by climbing to the top of trees. Eventually, if not consumed by predators, they will liquify and fall to the forest floor. Individuals who first noted the disease called it tree top disease. A: in order to be a successful virus, it must spread to new hosts. By turning the caterpillars into liquid, it allows other caterpillars to become infected too. A: the virus evolved a way to control a hormonal response in the caterpillars. Simple machines that have evolved to replicate in certain hosts. Oftentimes it does not result in disease. Viruses are ubiquitous , which means that they are everywhere. Study of viruses has the potential to: aid disease prevention, help us understand the fundamentals of host biology. Viruses tap into control points in host cell physiology and undermine them.
