Li, Shun-Ji, Hopkins, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4935-5825, Zhao, Yi-Pei, Zhang, Yun-Xuan, Hu, Jue, Chen, Xu-Yang, Xu, Zhi and Huang, Guo-Hua (2016) Imperfection works: Survival, transmission and persistence in the system of Heliothis virescens ascovirus 3h (HvAV-3h), Microplitis similis and Spodoptera exigua. Scientific Reports, 6:21296. ISSN 2045-2322 (Print), 2045-2322 (Online) (doi:10.1038/srep21296)

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Abstract

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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Uncontrolled Keywords:	Parasitoid, Host, Virus
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2020 16:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/14708

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