Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci

Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci

The female-biased infection of facultative symbionts has been found in Bemisia tabaci; however, whether there are any differences in tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and obligate symbiont infection rates between females and males is unknown. Determining whether such differences exist would be v...

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Main Authors: Guo, Huifang, Qu, Yufeng, Liu, Xiangdong, Zhong, Wanfang, Fang, Jichao
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898951/
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spelling pubmed-38989512014-01-24 Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci Guo, Huifang Qu, Yufeng Liu, Xiangdong Zhong, Wanfang Fang, Jichao Research Article The female-biased infection of facultative symbionts has been found in Bemisia tabaci; however, whether there are any differences in tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and obligate symbiont infection rates between females and males is unknown. Determining whether such differences exist would be very important for understanding the spread of the plant virus and of the symbionts. We compared both symbiont infection types, including obligate and facultative symbionts, and the rates of TYLCV infection in both sexes in five field populations from Jiangsu Province, China. The obligate symbiont Portiera aleyrodidarum was not found in every whitefly tested. In all tested populations, more females than males were found to harbor P. aleyrodidarum; and more females than males also harbored Hamiltonella defense, the most common facultative symbiont as well as Cardinium. In addition to female-biased symbiont infections, there were also female-biased TYLCV infections, and the infection frequencies of this plant virus in females were higher than those in males. Taken together, these results suggested that both the female-biased symbiont infections and female-biased TYLCV infections promoted the rapid spread of TYLCV in China. Public Library of Science 2014-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3898951/ /pubmed/24465416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084538 Text en © 2014 Guo et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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author Guo, Huifang
Qu, Yufeng
Liu, Xiangdong
Zhong, Wanfang
Fang, Jichao
spellingShingle Guo, Huifang
Qu, Yufeng
Liu, Xiangdong
Zhong, Wanfang
Fang, Jichao
Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci
author_facet Guo, Huifang
Qu, Yufeng
Liu, Xiangdong
Zhong, Wanfang
Fang, Jichao
author_sort Guo, Huifang
title Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci
title_short Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci
title_full Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci
title_fullStr Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci
title_full_unstemmed Female-Biased Symbionts and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infections in Bemisia tabaci
title_sort female-biased symbionts and tomato yellow leaf curl virus infections in bemisia tabaci
description The female-biased infection of facultative symbionts has been found in Bemisia tabaci; however, whether there are any differences in tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and obligate symbiont infection rates between females and males is unknown. Determining whether such differences exist would be very important for understanding the spread of the plant virus and of the symbionts. We compared both symbiont infection types, including obligate and facultative symbionts, and the rates of TYLCV infection in both sexes in five field populations from Jiangsu Province, China. The obligate symbiont Portiera aleyrodidarum was not found in every whitefly tested. In all tested populations, more females than males were found to harbor P. aleyrodidarum; and more females than males also harbored Hamiltonella defense, the most common facultative symbiont as well as Cardinium. In addition to female-biased symbiont infections, there were also female-biased TYLCV infections, and the infection frequencies of this plant virus in females were higher than those in males. Taken together, these results suggested that both the female-biased symbiont infections and female-biased TYLCV infections promoted the rapid spread of TYLCV in China.
publisher Public Library of Science
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898951/
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