A5053859959- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
- Study of Mite Species
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
University of Florida
2022-2023
Nanjing Agricultural University
2018-2022
Wolbachia is a widely distributed intracellular bacterial endosymbiont among invertebrates. The wStriCN, the strain that naturally infects an agricultural pest Laodelphax striatellus, has "Jekyll and Hyde" mode of infection pattern with positive negative effects: It not only kills many offspring by inducing cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) but also significantly increases host fecundity. In this study, we assembled draft genome wStriCN compared it other genomes to look for clues its Jekyll...
Clarifying the mechanisms underlying microbial community assembly from regional pools is a central issue of ecology, but remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigated gut bacterial and fungal microbiome processes potential sources in
Abstract Bacteria symbionts in herbivores play an important role host biology and ecology, are affected by environmental factors such as temperature, diet, habitat, antibiotics so on. However, the effects of on microbiome small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus (SBPH) remain unclear. Here, we studied tetracycline diversity composition bacterial colonies different tissues SBPH using high throughput sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA amplicons. Our results show that Proteobacteria,...
Abstract Microorganisms provide many physiological functions to herbivorous hosts. Spider mites (genus Tetranychus ) are important agricultural pests throughout the world; however, composition of spider mite microbial community, especially gut microbiome, remains unclear. Here, we investigated bacterial community in five species and their associated feces by deep sequencing 16S rRNA gene. The was significantly different among prevalent species, some symbionts showed host‐species specificity....
Local adaptation is particularly likely in invertebrate pests that typically have short generation times and large population sizes, but there are few studies on pest species investigating local separating this process from contemporaneous historical gene flow. Here, we use a genomic approach to investigate evolutionary processes the two most dominant spider mites China,
Abstract Rice planthoppers are notorious plant sap‐feeding pests which cause serious damage. While several microbes in rice have been broadly characterized, the abundance and diversity of bacteria fungi field largely unknown. This study investigated bacterial fungal community compositions Chinese wild Laodelphax striatellus Sogatella furcifera using parallel 16S rRNA gene amplicon internal transcribed space region sequencing. The varied significantly between species were partitioned by sex,...
Salivary proteins of herbivorous insects play a central role in plant-insect interactions. Spider mite Tetranychus truncatus is polyphagous agricultural pest harboring various bacterial symbionts. However, whether endosymbionts infection spider alters the host saliva protein remains largely unknown. Here, by using shotgun LC-MS/MS analysis, we identified and characterized components Wolbachia-Spiroplasma infected uninfected T. truncatus. In total, 177 putative salivary were identified. The...
Cholera has been a human scourge since the early 1800s and remains global public health challenge, caused by toxigenic strains of bacterium Vibrio cholerae. In its aquatic reservoirs, V. cholerae shown to live in association with various arthropod hosts, including chironomids, diverse insect family commonly found wet semiwet habitats. The between chironomids may shield from environmental stressors amplify dissemination. However, interaction dynamics remain largely unknown. this study, we...
Abstract Deciphering genetic structure and inferring migration routes of insects with high migratory ability have been challenging, due to weak differentiation limited resolution offered by traditional genotyping methods. Here, we tested the double digest restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (ddRADseq)-based single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in revealing population relative 13 microsatellite markers using four small brown planthopper populations as subjects. Using ddRADseq,...
Pantoea ananatis is a bacterium that found in many agronomic crops and agricultural pests. Here, we isolated P. strain (Lstr) from the rice planthopper Laodelphax striatellus, notorious pest feeds on plant sap transmits viruses, order to examine its genome biology. Lstr an insect symbiont pathogenic host appears mostly inhabit gut. Its pathogenicity thus raises possibility of using as biological agent. To this end, analysed compared it with genomes other species. Our analysis these shows can...
The red tomato spider mite, Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard, is a newly emerged and globally invasive pest of solanaceous plants. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome T. was sequenced using Illumina Hiseq technology. typical circular DNA with length 13,064 bp, which contains 37 genes arranged in consistent metazoan genomes. Highly truncated tRNAs were observed, 18 22 appearing to lack D- or T- arms both. A preliminary phylogenic analysis showed that can significantly...
Abstract Microbes are prevalent and abundant in diverse insects. Many microbes known to influence host fitness. The small brown planthoppers Laodelphax striatellus Fallen is a notorious plant sap‐feeding pest causing heavy loss rice yield. Some L. ‐associated have been surveyed partially. However, their microbial communities at the species level were poorly identified. In this study, we investigated bacterial community from 7 populations of using restriction fragment length polymorphism...