Bacteriophage-Host Association in the Phytoplasma Insect Vector Euscelidius variegatus.

ABSTRACT: Insect vectors transmit viruses and bacteria that can cause severe diseases in plants and economic losses due to a decrease in crop production. Insect vectors, like all other organisms, are colonized by a community of various microorganisms, which can influence their physiology, ecology, evolution, and also their competence as vectors. The important ecological meaning of bacteriophages in various ecosystems and their role in microbial communities has emerged in the past decade. However, only a few phages have been described so far in insect microbiomes. The leafhopper Euscelidius variegatus is a laboratory vector of the phytoplasma causing Flavescence dorée, a severe grapevine disease that threatens viticulture in Europe. Here, the presence of a temperate bacteriophage in E. vari

SUBMITTER: Vallino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8156552 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature