Jin, Dan Sun, Binda Zhao, Wenqi Ma, Jincheng Zhou, Qiuyue Han, Xuemeng Mei, Yalin Fan, Yanhua Pei, Yan
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Beauveria bassiana is an important entomopathogenic fungus used to control a variety of insect pests. Conidia are the infective propagules of the fungus. However, some important factors that influence conidiation are still to be investigated. In this study, a mutant with decreased conidial production and hyphal growth was identified from a random T...
Douch, James K Poupa, Anita M
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
From citizen science data we report the first records of blue to violet-colored oniscideans (Oniscidea: Isopoda), indicating potential invertebrate iridescent virus (IIV; Betairidovirinae: Iridoviridae) infection: in Africa, South America, and Oceania; and of the new hosts Armadillidium nasatum and Balloniscus sellowii. DNA sequencing of indigo Por...
Shwe, Su Mon Wang, Yueqin Gao, Zupeng Li, Xue Liu, Shen Bai, Shuxiong Zhang, Tiantao He, Kanglai Wang, Zhenying
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Transgenic plants expressing insecticidal proteins from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have provided an effective way to control target pests. However, the toxicity of Bt proteins against yellow peach moth (YPM), Conogethes punctiferalis (Guenée), one of the most serious maize pests in China, has not received much study. Therefore, we performed di...
Bitencourt, Ricardo de Oliveira Barbosa Salcedo-Porras, Nicolas Umaña-Diaz, Claudia da Costa Angelo, Isabele Lowenberger, Carl
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Mosquitoes transmit many parasites and pathogens to humans that cause significant morbidity and mortality. As such, we are constantly looking for new methods to reduce mosquito populations, including the use of effective biological controls. Entomopathogenic fungi are excellent candidate biocontrol agents to control mosquitoes. Understanding the co...
Cassal, Maximiano Corrêa Fukushima, Airi Nishi, Oumi Iiyama, Kazuhiro Fiuza, Lidia Mariana Yasunaga-Aoki, Chisa
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Microsporidia are important entomopathogens known for infecting insects such as the silkworm (Bombyx mori) thus impairing global silk production. This study aimed to identify and characterize the microsporidia isolated from a diseased larva of silkworm, collected from a sericulture farm in southern Brazil. Identification was performed by phylogenet...
Mangabeira-Silva, Iasmim Santos Soares, Paulo Eduardo Toscano Lanza, Daniel Carlos Ferreira
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Despite the considerable number of genetic markers published for Penaeus vannamei, the classification of these markers and their standardization in specific databases is still insufficient. As a consequence, access to these markers is difficult, hampering their application in genetic association studies. In this study, all previously described sing...
Coates, Christopher J Söderhäll, Kenneth
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
It is a difficult task to describe what constitutes a 'healthy' shellfish (e.g., crustacean, bivalve). Visible defects such as discolouration, missing limbs or spines, fouling, lesions, and exoskeletal fractures can be indicative of underlying issues, senescence, or a 'stressed' animal. The absence of such symptoms is not evidence of a disease-free...
Itoh, Naoki Kuboyama, Azusa Freeman, Mark A Katata, Masahide Yamakawa, Takashi Yoshinaga, Tomoyoshi
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Japanese spiny lobsters (Panulirus japonicus) exhibiting white opaque abdominal muscle were found in Mie and Wakayama prefectures, in mid-Western Japan. Microscopically, two types of microsporidian spores, ovoid and rod-shaped, were observed infecting the muscle. Histologically, both types of spore were detected inside myofibers of the abdomen, app...
Darriba, Susana Lee, Ren-Shiang López, Carmen
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
During a histopathological survey of Mytilus galloprovincialis in Galicia (NW Spain), microcells were observed infecting several organs of the symbiont copepod Mytilicola intestinalis. Positive results of PCR assay with specific primers for genus Mikrocytos and a clear signal of in situ hybridization with MACKINI-1 digoxigenin- labelled DNA probe (...
Yildirim, Yakup Çagirgan, Abdurrahman Anil Usta, Aysegul
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Journal of invertebrate pathology
Sacbrood virus (SBV) is one of the most damaging viruses in honey bee colonies. Genetic differences among sacbrood viruses detected in honey bees in different locales have been reported in previous studies. The aim of this study was to construct phylogenetic trees based on the structural polyprotein and non-structural RNA dependent RNA polymerase g...
