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Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua

Ascoviruses are insect-specific large DNA viruses that mainly infect noctuid larvae, and are transmitted by parasitoids in the fields. Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h) has been recently isolated from Spodoptera exigua, without parasitoid vector identified previously. Here we report that Mi...

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Autores principales: Li, Shun-Ji, Hopkins, Richard J., Zhao, Yi-Pei, Zhang, Yun-Xuan, Hu, Jue, Chen, Xu-Yang, Xu, Zhi, Huang, Guo-Hua
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26878829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21296
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author Li, Shun-Ji
Hopkins, Richard J.
Zhao, Yi-Pei
Zhang, Yun-Xuan
Hu, Jue
Chen, Xu-Yang
Xu, Zhi
Huang, Guo-Hua
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Hopkins, Richard J.
Zhao, Yi-Pei
Zhang, Yun-Xuan
Hu, Jue
Chen, Xu-Yang
Xu, Zhi
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description Ascoviruses are insect-specific large DNA viruses that mainly infect noctuid larvae, and are transmitted by parasitoids in the fields. Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h) has been recently isolated from Spodoptera exigua, without parasitoid vector identified previously. Here we report that Microplitis similis, a solitary endoparasitoid wasp, could transmit HvAV-3h between S. exigua larvae in the laboratory. When the female parasitoid wasp acquired the virus and served as a vector, the period of virion viability on the ovipositor was 4.1 ± 1.4 days. Infected host larvae were still acceptable for egg laying by parasitoids, and the parasitoids thereafter transmitted virus to healthy hosts. Virus acquisition occurred only from donor hosts between 3 and 9 days post infection. The peak of virus acquisition (80.9 ± 6.3%) was found when M. similis wasps oviposited in larvae that had been inoculated with the virus 7 days previously. When virus infection of the host took place during the life cycle of the parasitoid wasp, it caused 1- to 4-day-old immature parasitoids death in the host, whilst a small proportion of 5- to 6-day-old and the majority of 7-day-old parasitoids larvae survived from the virus-infected hosts. Viral contamination did not reduce the life span or fecundity of female M. similis.
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spelling pubmed-47547122016-02-24 Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua Li, Shun-Ji Hopkins, Richard J. Zhao, Yi-Pei Zhang, Yun-Xuan Hu, Jue Chen, Xu-Yang Xu, Zhi Huang, Guo-Hua Sci Rep Article Ascoviruses are insect-specific large DNA viruses that mainly infect noctuid larvae, and are transmitted by parasitoids in the fields. Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h) has been recently isolated from Spodoptera exigua, without parasitoid vector identified previously. Here we report that Microplitis similis, a solitary endoparasitoid wasp, could transmit HvAV-3h between S. exigua larvae in the laboratory. When the female parasitoid wasp acquired the virus and served as a vector, the period of virion viability on the ovipositor was 4.1 ± 1.4 days. Infected host larvae were still acceptable for egg laying by parasitoids, and the parasitoids thereafter transmitted virus to healthy hosts. Virus acquisition occurred only from donor hosts between 3 and 9 days post infection. The peak of virus acquisition (80.9 ± 6.3%) was found when M. similis wasps oviposited in larvae that had been inoculated with the virus 7 days previously. When virus infection of the host took place during the life cycle of the parasitoid wasp, it caused 1- to 4-day-old immature parasitoids death in the host, whilst a small proportion of 5- to 6-day-old and the majority of 7-day-old parasitoids larvae survived from the virus-infected hosts. Viral contamination did not reduce the life span or fecundity of female M. similis. Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4754712/ /pubmed/26878829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21296 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Li, Shun-Ji
Hopkins, Richard J.
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Zhang, Yun-Xuan
Hu, Jue
Chen, Xu-Yang
Xu, Zhi
Huang, Guo-Hua
Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua
title Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua
title_full Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua
title_fullStr Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua
title_full_unstemmed Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua
title_short Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua
title_sort imperfection works: survival, transmission and persistence in the system of heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (hvav-3h), microplitis similis and spodoptera exigua
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26878829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21296
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