Max Schmidtbauer1, Jordan Withycombe1,2, Jinlong Han1

  • 1Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Scientific reports
|February 19, 2026
PubMed
まとめ

ビート・カーリー・トップ・ウイルス (BCTV) 感染は,ネオニコチノイド殺虫剤に対するビート・リーフホッパー (BLH) の生存率を高めます. このウイルス媒介の耐性は,行動ではなく,昆虫の遺伝子発現の変化に関連しています.

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