| 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 |