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NPJ BIOFILMS AND MICROBIOMES
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41522-021-00216-5
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U20A2036]
- Project of State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products [ZS20190102]
- Ningbo Science and Technology Innovation 2025 Major Project [2019B10004]
- K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
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This study comprehensively analyzed the viromes of different cryptic species of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, identifying 20 novel insect-specific viruses (ISVs) and revealing potential cross-infection between different cryptic species. Additionally, it was found that some ISVs can successfully replicate in the whitefly and the antiviral RNAi pathway of B. tabaci plays an active role in response to ISV infections.
A large number of insect-specific viruses (ISVs) have recently been discovered, mostly from hematophagous insect vectors because of their medical importance, but little attention has been paid to important plant virus vectors such as the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, which exists as a complex of cryptic species. Public SRA datasets of B. tabaci and newly generated transcriptomes of three Chinese populations are here comprehensively investigated to characterize the whitefly viromes of different cryptic species. Twenty novel ISVs were confidently identified, mostly associated with a particular cryptic species while different cryptic species harbored one or more core ISVs. Microinjection experiments showed that some ISVs might cross-infect between the two invasive whitefly cryptic species, Middle East Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1) and Mediterranean (MED), but others appeared to have a more restricted host range, reflecting the possibility of distinct long-term coevolution of these ISVs and whitefly hosts. Moreover, analysis of the profiles of virus-derived small-interfering RNAs indicated that some of the ISVs can successfully replicate in whitefly and the antiviral RNAi pathway of B. tabaci is actively involved in response to ISV infections. Our study provides a comprehensive analysis of the RNA virome, the distinct relationships and cross-cryptic species infectivity of ISVs in an agriculturally important insect vector.
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