Virus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin discovered
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 16:41
in Biology & Nature
A tiny virus that may sting like a black widow spider. That is one of the surprise discoveries made by a pair of Vanderbilt biologists when they sequenced the genome of a virus that attacks Wolbachia, a bacterial parasite that has successfully infected not only black widow spiders but more than half of all arthropod […]