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    Defective or effective?: mutualistic interactions between virus genotypes
    (Royal Society, 2003-11-07) López Ferber, Miguel; Simón de Goñi, Oihane; Williams, Trevor; Caballero Murillo, Primitivo; Producción Agraria; Nekazaritza Ekoizpena
    Defective viruses lack genes essential for survival but they can co-infect with complete virus genotypes and use gene products from the complete genotype for their replication and transmission. As such, they are detrimental to the fitness of complete genotypes. Here, we describe a mutualistic interaction between genotypes of an insect baculovirus (nucleopolyhedrovirus of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera)) that increases the pathogenicity of the viral population. Mixtures of a complete genotype able to be transmitted orally and a deletion mutant unable to be transmitted orally resulted in a phenotype of increased pathogenicity. Because the infectiousness of mixed genotype infections was greater than that of single genotype infections, we predict that the transmissibility of mixed genotype occlusion bodies will be greater than that of any of their single genotype components. Such interactions will be subject to frequency-dependent selection and will influence the impact of these viruses on insect population dynamics and their efficacy as biological insecticides.
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    Dynamics of deletion genotypes in an experimental insect virus population
    (Royal Society, 2006-12-13) Simón de Goñi, Oihane; Williams, Trevor; Caballero Murillo, Primitivo; López Ferber, Miguel; Producción Agraria; Nekazaritza Ekoizpena
    Defective viruses, that are deficient in certain essential genes, are maintained in the population by transcomplementation, exploiting the gene products of complete genotypes in co-infected cells. This process becomes prevalent only when cells are frequently infected by several virus particles, and only then will the fitness of defective viruses be subjected to frequency-dependent selection. Deletion variants that are not infectious per os are present in a multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV, Baculoviridae) that infects the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda. These variants enhance the pathogenicity and, therefore, the likelihood of transmission of the virus when co-infecting cells with complete genotypes, resulting in occlusion bodies (OBs) that may contain both genotypes co-occluded. Mixtures of complete (B) and defective (C) variants in ratios of 90% B+10% C, 50% B+50% C and 10% B+90% C were used to inoculate by injection S. frugiperda larvae. Viral OBs extracted from diseased insects were subjected to four or five successive rounds of per os infection. Following successive passages, genotype frequencies in all three experimental populations converged to a single equilibrium frequency comprising ∼20% of deletion genotype C and ∼80% of complete genotype B. This mirrors the relative proportions of deletion (22%) and complete (78%) genotypes observed in the wild-type SfMNPV population. The pathogenicity of experimental populations at the final passage was not significantly different from that of the wild-type isolate. In contrast, OBs of all genotype mixtures were significantly more pathogenic than OBs of genotype B alone. A population genetics model, in which virus populations were assigned linear frequency-dependent transmissibility values, was in remarkably close agreement to empirical data. Clearly, non-infectious deletion variants can profoundly affect the likelihood of transmission and the genetic structure and stability of virus populations.