Publications

a new phytoreovirus infecting the glassy-winged sharpshooter (homalodisca vitripennis).	a new virus species of the genus phytoreovirus was isolated from glassy-winged sharpshooter (gwss), homalodisca vitripennis germar (hemiptera: cicadellidae), in california and designated here as homalodisca vitripennis reovirus (hovrv). extraction of nucleic acid from gwss adults collected from three californian populations revealed an array of double-stranded (ds) rna species that was soluble in 2 m licl and resistant to degradation upon exposure to s1 nuclease and dnase. analysis of nucleic ac ...	2009	19239972
population genetics of homalodisca vitripennis reovirus validates timing and limited introduction to california of its invasive insect host, the glassy-winged sharpshooter.	as rna viruses evolve rapidly, we hypothesized that a virus could serve as a surrogate to discriminate recently separated populations of an invasive insect species. homalodisca vitripennis reovirus (hovrv) was used as a surrogate to assess population structure of glassy-winged sharpshooter (gwss), an invasive species detected in california ~20 years ago. hovrv nucleotide sequence polymorphism revealed a bottleneck in the introduced population, yielded population age estimates consistent with tim ...	2010	20739043