Talk:Baculoviridae

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Sources?--Gorton k (talk) 17:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

The relationship between the topic and ....
Biosafety --58.38.45.18 (talk) 06:24, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
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History of term "Baculovirus" -- As I understand the term generally is the name used for members of Baculoviridea. While that seems obvious, the difficulty arises from the fact that usage of the term "Baculoviridea" has itself taken on different meanings over time. What used to be Baculoviridea (and thus baculoviruses) is not Baculovirales, with the term "Baculoviridea" now standing for a particular family within Baculovirales. Thus, in the strictest sense "baculovirus" no longer applies to Nimaviridae or other members of Baculovirales that are outside of the newly defined Baculoviridea. These changes are not that old, so a lot of important scientific literature will reflect the old usage of both baculoviruses and Baculoviridea. Accordingly, I don't think it is adequate to just put forth the modern definition of baculovirus (of Baculoviridea) because someone who is reading an older article might, as I did, turn to the Wikipedia article for clarification of the meaning of baculovirus, and become quite confused because of the discrepancy of usage between what they are reading elsewhere and what they may be told here. I would recommend that we explain the history of this nomenclature with a caution that the term "baculovirus" in older literature may well refer to some member of Baculovirales that is not a baculovirus today, and that such reader also should consult articles on other families within the order Baculovirales. Ray Glock-Grueneich (talk) 14:43, 21 December 2013 (UTC) Ray Glock-Grueneich

Do baculoviruses infect shrimp? -- I want to first acknowledge that I don't know the answer to this question. I understand that there is at least one Nudivirus species (Penaeus monodon nudivirus) that infects shrimp. However, I suspect that the claim that shrimp are susceptible to baculovirus infection may have been the result of the fact that nudiviruses used to be considered baculoviruses - see preceding post. Is there any species of Baculoviridae as presently defined that infects shrimp (or any other crustacean)? If not, this reference to shrimp should either be deleted or expressly noted as obsolete, with cross-reference to Nudivirus. Ray Glock-Grueneich (talk) 14:43, 21 December 2013 (UTC) Ray Glock-Grueneich

My second suggestion of 21 December 2013 may be disregarded. There is at least 1 species of Baculovirus that does infect shrimp: Peneaus monodon nucleopolyhedrovirus. As an occluded virus, this species would not be a Nudivirus. Ray Glock-Grueneich 58.58.26.162 (talk) 03:52, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

opening sentence - invertebrates.
"The baculoviruses are a family of large rod-shaped invertebrates Circular DNA viruses that can be divided to two genera: nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV) and granuloviruses (GV)."

is the opening sentence. i bolded invertebrates to show what i think is incorrect. i believe the editor was adding information, and simply copy/pasted an additional " invertebrates " by accident, based on their edit summary:

"(I made the first sentence more informing for fast info by adding the fact that the virus's tropism is solely in invertebrates, and that it's genome is circular dsDNA)." ∈sensorsweep 06:39, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Article Name
This needs to be changed. "Baculovirus" implies this is a genus, however no such genus exists. This article is about the family "Baculoviridae." This is misleading and needs to be addressed. How do we go about changing the name of an article? Bervin61 (talk) 15:46, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Removed "technical" and "More footnotes" tags
Hey all! I removed the and  tags from the article. When they were placed, the article looked like this and was obviously far-more filled with jargon and had references listed by bullet-point in the references section. If anyone has a problem with the removal of the tags, feel free to air your grievances here. Thanks! Ajpolino (talk) 05:31, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus into Baculoviridae
A descriptive term about polyhedrosis with minimal current taxonomic value as a single coherent article-worthy thing. Its legacy does live on in species names and the also-abolished name Nucleopolyhedrovirus (not a very accurate redirect considering it's spread over 3 genera!), but all those can be much more clearly discussed under the articles that use these newer names. Artoria2e5 🌉 04:05, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 11:20, 5 March 2023 (UTC)