Open AccessTRANSMISSION OF FIJI DISEASE BY PERKINSIELLA SACCHARICIDA KIRKALDY COLLECTED FROM NORTHERN QUEENSLAND
Author(s) -
Osborn A. W.,
Forteath G. N. R.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1972.tb01638.x
Subject(s) - leafhopper , biology , vector (molecular biology) , transmission (telecommunications) , disease , strain (injury) , distribution (mathematics) , disease transmission , veterinary medicine , virology , ecology , genetics , anatomy , engineering , telecommunications , gene , mathematics , pathology , recombinant dna , medicine , hemiptera , mathematical analysis
The sugarcane leafhopper, Perkinsiella saccharicida , collected from northern Queensland, was found to be a vector of Fiji disease. Therefore the discontinuous distribution of the disease in Australia cannot be explained in terms of a non‐vector strain of leafhoppers.