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Determinants in the Specificity of Virus Transmission by Leaf-feeding Beetles

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Advances in Disease Vector Research

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Vector specificity is a well-recognized characteristic of plant viruses. The plant viruses that are transmitted by leaf-feeding beetles are in four virus groups and cannot be transmitted by other commonly recognized virus vectors such as aphids, leafhoppers, or nematodes. The basis for vector specificity has been elucidated for some virus-vector combinations, and in many cases the interaction between the vector and virus is determined by virus coat proteins or by nonstructural proteins, as with the aphid-transmitted potyviruses and caulimoviruses (16, 17). These viral proteins have been shown to mediate a specific, definitive interaction of the virus particle with some surface of the vector. Sites of virus binding to vector surfaces that play a role in vector specificity have been identified for nematode, fungal, aphid, and leafhopper vectors (2, 16, 17). In some cases, virus coat proteins are involved in interactions with and transport across vector membranes as in the case with luteovirus passage through the aphid gut wall and accessory salivary gland cells (15).

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Gergerich, R.C., Scott, H.A. (1991). Determinants in the Specificity of Virus Transmission by Leaf-feeding Beetles. In: Harris, K.F. (eds) Advances in Disease Vector Research. Advances in Disease Vector Research, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3110-3_1

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