Transcriptional changes in the aphid species Myzus cerasi under different host and environmental conditions.

ABSTRACT: Aphids feature complex life cycles, which in the case of many agriculturally important species involve primary and secondary host plant species. Whilst host alternation between primary and secondary host can occur in the field depending on host availability and the environment, aphid populations maintained as laboratory stocks generally are kept under conditions that allow asexual reproduction by parthenogenesis on secondary hosts. We used Myzus cerasi (black cherry aphid) to assess aphid transcriptional differences between populations collected from primary hosts in the field and those adapted to secondary hosts under controlled environment conditions. Transfer of M. cerasi collected from local cherry trees to reported secondary host species resulted in low survival rates. Moreover, aphid

SUBMITTER: Thorpe P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317760 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature