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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2007, p. 6811-6818, Vol. 73, No. 21
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02694-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Effects of Salivary Gland Hypertrophy Virus on the Reproductive Behavior of the Housefly, Musca domestica{triangledown}

Verena-Ulrike Lietze,1* Christopher J. Geden,2 Patrick Blackburn,1 and Drion G. Boucias1

Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611,1 Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA ARS, Gainesville, Florida 326042

Received 17 November 2006/ Accepted 25 August 2007

Pathological studies demonstrated that the salivary gland hypertrophy virus of houseflies (MdSGHV) shuts down reproduction in infected females. The mechanism that underlay the disruption of reproduction functioned on several levels. Females infected at the previtellogenic stage did not produce eggs, reflecting a block in the gonadotropic cycle. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blot analysis of hemolymph samples demonstrated that MdSGHV infection reduced the levels of both the female-specific hexamerin and egg yolk proteins. Furthermore, reverse transcriptase quantitative real-time PCR data demonstrated that infection blocked hexamerin and yolk protein gene transcription. When females were allowed to develop eggs prior to infection (postvitellogenic stage), the outcome of mating attempts depended upon when mating took place. If egg-containing, virus-infected females were mated within 24 h of infection, they copulated and deposited a single batch of fertilized eggs. However, if mating was delayed for a longer period, the egg-containing females refused to copulate with healthy males. Both of these results suggested that a virus-induced signal influenced the central nervous system, shutting down female receptivity and egg production. All experiments demonstrated that MdSGHV-infected males did not display azoospermia and were fertile. Both healthy females mated with infected males, and the resulting F1 progeny were free of salivary gland hypertrophy symptoms, which suggests that the virus is not sexually or vertically transmitted.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110620, Gainesville, FL 32611. Phone: (352) 392-1901. Fax: (352) 392-0190. E-mail: vlietze{at}ufl.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 7 September 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2007, p. 6811-6818, Vol. 73, No. 21
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02694-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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