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MOST workers with the polyhedral viruses affecting insects have regarded them as strictly species-specific and only transmissible to closely related species with great difficulty. Indeed, previously in such attempted cross-transmissions we have had little success although we have transmitted the polyhedral virus of the common clothes moth, Tineola bisselliella, to the case-bearing larva of another species of clothes moth, T. pellionella.
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Smith, Kenneth M., Biol. Rev., 27, 347 (1952).
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SMITH, K., XEROS, N. Transmission of Polyhedral Viruses between Different Insect Species. Nature 170, 492 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170492a0
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