scholarly journals Ultrastructure of viruliferous Javesella pellucida transmitting Festuca leaf streak virus (genus Cytorhabdovirus)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorben Lundsgaard

SummaryThe ultrastructure of cells in the head and thorax from viruliferous Javesella pellucida transmitting Festuca leaf streak virus was studied. Aggregates of nonenveloped nucleocapsid particles were observed at the periphery of viroplasms located in cytoplasm of salivary gland cells, fat cells, and nerve cell bodies. Aggregates of nucleocapsid particles, not associated with viroplasms, were seen within a distance of about 1 μm from the basal lamina of salivary glands. Enveloped virions, singly or aggregated, were observed in nerve cell axons and/or dendrites.

1999 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 1144-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myoung-Ok Kwon ◽  
Astri C. Wayadande ◽  
Jacqueline Fletcher

Spiroplasma citri, a helical, wall-less prokaryote in the class Molli-cutes, is transmitted by the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus. Invasion of leafhopper tissues and cytopathological effects by S. citri were investigated by transmission electron microscopy. All eight cell types of the principle salivary glands, as well as the adjacent muscle cells and the cells of the accessory salivary glands, were colonized by the spiroplas-mas. In both midgut epithelia and salivary gland cells, spiroplasmas usually occurred in membrane-bound cytoplasmic vesicles that often were located near the cell periphery. In several salivary gland cells, spiroplas-mas were also observed within membranous pockets apparently formed by invagination of the plasmalemma beneath intact basal lamina. These observations are consistent with spiroplasma entry into the insect cells by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Cytopathological effects of spiroplasma infection in salivary cells included loss of membrane and basal lamina integrity, presence in some cells of irregular inclusion-like structures containing dense matrices of filamentous material that labeled with anti S. citri antibodies, and apparent disorganization of the endoplasmic reticulum. Compared to the tightly aligned fiber bundles in healthy muscle cells, bundles in spiroplasma-containing muscle cells appeared fragmented and loosely arranged. Such symptoms could contribute to the reduction in longevity and fecundity that has been previously reported for S. citri-infected C. tenellus.


Author(s):  
Neil M. Foster ◽  
Robert H. Jones

Bluetongue virus (BTV) multiplies in the invertebrate host culicodies variipennis and is transmitted by this biting fly to wild and domestic ruminants; e.g., see review. Virus replication in the salivary gland of nonbloodfed flies was similar to that for cultured cells. This report describe observations on BTV-infected salivary gland cells from bloodfed flies.Two-day-old female flies, which had been given a blood meal on normal rabbits when the flies were one day old, were inoculated either with normal or BTV-infected cell culture fluids into the hemocoel. Flies were maintained alternately on water and 10% sugar solution for 14-21 days when salivary glands were removed and processed for viewing in thin section.Viroplasms in association with macrotubules, fibrils, and progeny virions were observed in the cytoplasm of infected salivary gland cells (Fig. 1). Large numbers of macrotubules were observed and they often occupied large areas of the cell. Macrotubules most often appeared in bundles of linear array and had an ordered appearance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Chen ◽  
Yuyan Liu ◽  
Zhirun Long ◽  
Hengsong Yang ◽  
Taiyun Wei

Numerous piercing-sucking insects can persistently transmit viral pathogens in combination with saliva to plant phloem in an intermittent pattern. Insect vectors maintain viruliferous for life. However, the reason why insect vectors discontinuously transmit the virus remains unclear. Rice dwarf virus (RDV), a plant reovirus, was found to replicate and assemble the progeny virions in salivary gland cells of the leafhopper vector. We observed that the RDV virions moved into saliva-stored cavities in the salivary glands of leafhopper vectors via an exocytosis-like mechanism, facilitating the viral horizontal transmission to plant hosts during the feeding of leafhoppers. Interestingly, the levels of viral accumulation in the salivary glands of leafhoppers during the transmitting period were significantly lower than those of viruliferous individuals during the intermittent period. A putative viral release threshold, which was close to 1.79 × 104 copies/μg RNA was proposed from the viral titers in the salivary glands of 52 leafhoppers during the intermittent period. Thus, the viral release threshold was hypothesized to mediate the intermittent release of RDV from the salivary gland cells of leafhoppers. We anticipate that viral release threshold-mediated intermittent transmission by insect vectors is the conserved strategy for the epidemic and persistence of vector-borne viruses in nature.


1998 ◽  
Vol 273 (17) ◽  
pp. 10806
Author(s):  
Pavel Belan ◽  
Julie Gardner ◽  
Oleg Gerasimenko ◽  
Chris Lloyd Mills ◽  
Ole H. Petersen ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 275 (13) ◽  
pp. 9890-9891
Author(s):  
Xibao Liu ◽  
Weiching Wang ◽  
Brij B. Singh ◽  
Timothy Lockwich ◽  
Julie Jadlowiec ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 77 (10) ◽  
pp. 1807-1816 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Yamaki ◽  
K. Morita ◽  
S. Kitayama ◽  
Y. Imai ◽  
K. Itadani ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 559-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Burger-Calderon ◽  
V. Madden ◽  
R. A. Hallett ◽  
A. D. Gingerich ◽  
V. Nickeleit ◽  
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