• Diversity and epidemiology of plant rhabdoviruses 

      Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Goodin, Michael M.; Higgins, Colleen M.; Huot, Ordom B.; Kondo, Hideki; Martin, Kathleen M.; Whitfield, Anna E. (Elsevier, 2020-03-19)
      Plant rhabdoviruses are recognized by their large bacilliform particles and for being able to replicate in both their plant hosts and arthropod vectors. This review highlights selected, better studied examples of plant ...
    • Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests 

      Rotenberg, Dorith; Baumann, Aaron A.; Ben-Mahmoud, Sulley; Christiaens, Olivier; Dermauw, Wannes; Ioannidis, Panagiotis; Jacobs, Chris G. C.; Vargas Jentzsch, Iris M.; Oliver, Jonathan E.; Poelchau, Monica F.; Priya Rajarapu, Swapna; Schneweis, Derek J.; Snoeck, Simon; Taning, Clauvis N. T.; Wei, Dong; Widana Gamage, Shirani M. K.; Hughes, Daniel S. T.; Murali, Shwetha C.; Bailey, Samuel T.; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Holmes, Christopher J.; Jennings, Emily C.; Rosendale, Andrew J.; Rosselot, Andrew; Hervey, Kaylee; Schneweis, Brandi A.; Cheng, Sammy; Childers, Christopher; Simão, Felipe A.; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Chao, Hsu; Dinh, Huyen; Vardhan Doddapaneni, Harsha; Dugan, Shannon; Han, Yi; Lee, Sandra L.; Muzny, Donna M.; Qu, Jiaxin; Worley, Kim C.; Benoit, Joshua B.; Friedrich, Markus; Jones, Jeffery W.; Panfilio, Kristen A.; Park, Yoonseong; Robertson, Hugh M.; Smagghe, Guy; Ullman, Diane E.; Van der Zee, Maurijn; Van Leeuwen, Thomas; Veenstra, Jan A.; Waterhouse, Robert M.; Weirauch, Matthew T.; Werren, John H.; Whitfield, Anna E.; Zdobnov, Evgeny M.; Gibbs, Richard A.; Richards, Stephen (BMC, 2020-10-19)
      Background The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), is a globally invasive pest and plant virus vector on a wide array of food, fiber and ornamental crops. While there are numerous studies centered ...
    • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Rhabdoviridae 2022 

      Walker, Peter J.; Freitas-Astúa, Juliana; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Blasdell, Kim R.; Breyta, Rachel; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Fooks, Anthony R; Kondo, Hideki; Kurath, Gael; Kuzmin, Ivan V.; Whitfield, Anna E. (Microbiology Society, 2022-06-20)
      The family Rhabdoviridae comprises viruses with negative-sense (−) RNA genomes of 10–16 kb. Virions are typically enveloped with bullet-shaped or bacilliform morphology but can also be non-enveloped filaments. Rhabdoviruses ...
    • Illuminating the Plant Rhabdovirus Landscape through Metatranscriptomics Data 

      Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Debat, Humberto Julio (MDPI, 2021-07-05)
      Rhabdoviruses infect a large number of plant species and cause significant crop diseases. They have a negative-sense, single-stranded unsegmented or bisegmented RNA genome. The number of plant-associated rhabdovirid sequences ...
    • Unlocking the Hidden Genetic Diversity of Varicosaviruses, the Neglected Plant Rhabdoviruses 

      Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Debat, Humberto Julio (MDPI, 2022-09-29)
      The genus Varicosavirus is one of six genera of plant-infecting rhabdoviruses. Varicosaviruses have non-enveloped, flexuous, rod-shaped virions and a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome. A distinguishing feature of ...