Preventing phytoplasma emerging diseases: phylogenetic relatedness and landscape analyses to assess the risk of outbreaks

Christine Fink, Lisa Kwan, Valeria Trivellone

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Abstract

Ecological fitting is a natural process that may drive new phytoplasma-host associations. Environmental changes across habitat interfaces are one of the most important factors in providing new opportunities for a pathogen to encounter a new host. In this study the contribution of geography and phylogenetic relatedness in explaining the rate of phytoplasma detection in insect vectors was studied. Furthermore, the landscape characteristics of the areas inhabited by the phytoplasma positive insect specimens were evaluated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)117-118
Number of pages2
JournalPhytopathogenic Mollicutes
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2023

Keywords

  • Hemiptera
  • leafhopper vectors
  • phylogenetic conservatism
  • phytoplasma diseases

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Parasitology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Microbiology (medical)
  • Cell Biology
  • Infectious Diseases

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