van Oers Monique M, Eilenberg Jørgen
Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
University of Copenhagen, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C., Denmark.
Insects. 2019 Jul 2;10(7):194. doi: 10.3390/insects10070194.
In this special issue the focus is on the factors and (molecular) mechanisms that determine the transmission efficiency of a variety of insect pathogens in a number of insect hosts. In this editorial, we summarize the main findings of the twelve papers in this special issue and conclude that much more needs to be learned for an in-depth understanding of pathogen transmission in field and cultured insect populations. Analyses of mutual interactions between pathogens or between endosymbionts and pathogens, aspects rather under-represented in the scientific literature, are described in a number of contributions to this special issue.
在本期特刊中,重点关注的是决定多种昆虫病原体在多种昆虫宿主中传播效率的因素和(分子)机制。在这篇社论中,我们总结了本期特刊中十二篇论文的主要发现,并得出结论:为了深入了解病原体在野外和养殖昆虫种群中的传播,还有很多需要学习的地方。本期特刊的多篇稿件描述了对病原体之间或内共生体与病原体之间相互作用的分析,而这些方面在科学文献中较少被提及。