"The insect world is full of species of parasitic wasps that spend their infancy eating other insects alive. And for reasons that scientists don’t fully understand, they have repeatedly adopted and tamed wild, disease-causing viruses and turned them into biological weapons. Half a dozen examples already are described, and new research hints at many more."
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/parasitoid-wasps-domesticate-viruses
#Nature #Biology #Wasps #Parasitoids #Viruses #Evolution
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