Variety and diversity of microsporidia isolated from the common cutworm Spodoptera litura in Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands

• Published in: Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology Vol. 84; no. 3; pp. 3_069 - 3_073
• Main Authors: Shigano, Tomoaki, Hatakeyama, Yoshinori, Nishimoto, Naoko, Watanabe, Mai, Yamamoto, Yuuichi, Wijonarko, Arman, Ohbayashi, Takashi, Iwano, Hidetoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ibaraki The Japanese Society of Sericultural Science 01.01.2015; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Bombyx mori; Lepidoptera; Microsporidia; Nosema; Nosema bombycis; Pleistophora; Spodoptera litura; SSU rRNA; Trachipleistophora

We isolated and analyzed entomopathogenic microsporidia from the common cutworm, which were surveyed in vegetable crop fields on Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands, Japan, from April 2012 to March 2014. The infection rate of of the Spodoptera litura by microsporidia was 3.54% (161 of the 4,544 surveyed S...