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Exp Appl Acarol (2013) 59:165175
DOI 10.1007/s10493-012-9632-z
Jose Carlos Verle Rodrigues Carl C. Childers
Received: 27 June 2012 / Accepted: 22 October 2012 / Published online: 1 December 2012 The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract Multi-directional interactions occur among plant hosts, Brevipalpus mites and the plant viruses they transmit. Such interactions should be considered when evaluating the severity of a disease such as citrus leprosis. The current understanding of Brevipalpus-transmitted viruses relies on the capability of the vector to transmit the disease, the persistence of the virus in the host plant and the ability of the disease to spread. Previously, we discussed the Citrus leprosis virus (CiLV) and its importance and spread over the past decade into new areas of South and Central America, most recently into southern Mexico and Belize. Here, we address key questions to better understand the biology of the mite vector, tness costs, and the peculiarities of Brevipalpus mite reproduction, virus survival, transmissibility and spread, and the expansion of the host plant range of Brevipalpus species vectoring the disease.
Keywords Tenuipalpidae Vectorvirus relationships Invasive species
Brevipalpus phoenicis complex
J. C. V. Rodrigues (&)
Crops and AgroEnvironmental Sciences Department, Agricultural Experimental Station-Ro Piedras, University of Puerto Rico, 1193 Calle Guayacan, San Juan, PR 00926, USAe-mail: [email protected]
J. C. V. Rodrigues
Center for Excellence in Quarantine and Invasive Species, University of Puerto Rico, Biology Bldg, 1193 Calle Guayacan, San Juan, PR 00926, USA
J. C. V. Rodrigues
Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation (CATEC, CREST-NSF), Rio Piedras Campus Facundo Bueso Building Ofce 301A, San Juan, PR 00931, USA
C. C. Childers
Department of Entomology and Nematology, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA
Brevipalpus mites (Acari: Tenuipalpidae): vectors of invasive, non-systemic cytoplasmic and nuclear viruses in plants
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Biological peculiarities of Brevipalpus mite vectors
Previous papers have reviewed the basic biology of several Brevipalpus species on citrus, tea and other plants (Oomen 1982; Haramoto 1969, Chiavegato 1986, Childers et al. 2003a, b). However, new information has come to light that species that have been previously identied as Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijkes) are actually a complex of morphologically similar species (Beard et al. 2012) and biotypes...