Author：Laurence Alfred Mound ^1,2

¹ CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
² Corresponding author, E-mail: laurence.mound@csiro.au

Abstrct：

    Evidence from evolutionary relationships among Thysanoptera suggest that the associations between a few unrelated species of these insects with the Bunyaviridae. Tospoviruses does not have a long evolutionary history. Since tospoviruses are fully dependent for their existence on the few vector thrips species, the implication is that tospoviruses are a recent evolutionary phenomenon. The suggestion is made that variation in vector ability might be a more useful avenue for research than plant breeding to control these essentially vertebrate viruses.

Keywords: tospoviruses, Frankliniella, Thrips, vector ability, inheritance

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