Abstract
Bemisia tabaci is a species complex, of which the B and Q biotypes are globally distributed. B. tabaci feeds on more than 600 plant species including cotton, which is one of the main crops in Pakistan. In this study, the biotypes/haplotypes of B. tabaci populations collected from cotton plants in Pakistan, China, and Egypt were identified, and their phylogenetic relationships were investigated. None of the populations from Pakistan or Egypt belonged to the B or Q biotype: all 16 samples from Pakistan belonged to haplotype “PCG-1” and it is a group of unresolved populations all from Pakistan, while all three populations from Egypt belonged to unresolved haplotype “ECG.” The three populations from China belonged to the B biotype. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the PCG-1, ECG, and B biotypes clustered into different clades even though they share the same cotton plant species as their host. The association between the outbreaks of cotton leaf curl disease and the occurrence of the PCG haplotype of B. tabaci in Pakistan is discussed.
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The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on the previous version of this manuscript; thanks to Gui-Hua Jin, Wei-Lu Peng, and Xiao-Xi Li (SCAU) for their technical help in experiments; and Qamar Saeed (University College of Agriculture, BZU, Pakistan), Sulman Shafeeq, Khalid Mahmood, and Faheem Ahmad from Pakistan for supplying insect samples. This research was funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Project, 2009CB119203), National Department Public Benefit Research Foundation (nyhyzx200803005), and the China National Natural Science Foundation (30671372, 30871678).
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Ahmed, M.Z., Ren, SX., Mandour, N.S. et al. Phylogenetic analysis of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) populations from cotton plants in Pakistan, China, and Egypt. J Pest Sci 83, 135–141 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-009-0279-4
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