@article{489ce34dc8c344e595f5f582dfc70ee7,
title = "The virome of Drosophila suzukii, an invasive pest of soft fruit",
abstract = "Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) is one of the most damaging and costly pests to invade temperate horticultural regions in recent history. Conventional control of this pest is challenging, and an environmentally benign microbial biopesticide is highly desirable. A thorough exploration of the pathogens infecting this pest is not only the first step on the road to the development of an effective biopesticide, but also provides a valuable comparative dataset for the study of viruses in the model family Drosophilidae. Here we use a metatransciptomic approach to identify viruses infecting this fly in both its native (Japanese) and invasive (British and French) ranges. We describe eighteen new RNA viruses, including members of the Picornavirales, Mononegavirales, Bunyavirales, Chuviruses, Nodaviridae, Tombusviridae, Reoviridae, and Nidovirales, and discuss their phylogenetic relationships with previously known viruses. We also detect 18 previously described viruses of other Drosophila species that appear to be associated with D. suzukii in the wild.",
author = "Medd, {Nathan C.} and Simon Fellous and Fergal Waldron and Anne Xu{\'e}reb and Madoka Nakai and Cross, {Jerry V.} and Obbard, {Darren J.}",
note = "Acknowledgements We thank Michelle Fountain, Bethan Shaw, Adrian Harris, Maddie Cannon, and the entomological team at East Malling research for support in collecting British flies. We thank members of the Nakai Lab at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology for making us welcome, and the staff at the TUAT Field Museum Tama hills, Yamagata Prefectural Agricultural Research Centre, Agriculture Centre Kaju Institute, Fukushima and Yamanashi Prefecture Outside Organization Fruit Tree Test Site for support during field collections. We thank Edinburgh Genomics for sequencing, and members of the Obbard and Vale labs for discussion. This work was funded by a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship (WT085064) to D.J.O. and an Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board grant to D.J.O. and J.V.C. to support N.C.M.{\textquoteright}s PhD. Work in D.J.O.{\textquoteright}s laboratory was partly supported by a Wellcome Trust strategic award to the Centre for Immunity, Infection, and Evolution (WT095831).",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1093/ve/vey009",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
journal = "Virus Evolution",
number = "1",
}