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Selected References

Best, R.J. 1968. Tomato spotted wilt virus. Advances in Virus Research 13:66-146.

Mound, L.A. 2005. Thysanoptera: Diversity and Interactions. Annual Review of Entomology 50:247-269.

Moritz, G. http://www.biologie.uni-halle.de/org/thripsnet/

Moritz, G., S. Kumm, and L. Mound. 2004. Tospovirus transmission depends on thrips ontogeny. Virus Research 100:143-149.

Sin, S-H., B.C. McNulty, G.G. Kennedy, and J.W. Moyer. 2005. Viral genetic determinants for thrips transmission of Tomato spotted wilt virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:5168-5173.

Takeda, A., K. Sugiyama, H. Nahgano, M. Mori, M. Kaido, K. Mise, S. Tsuda, and T. Okuno. 2002. Identification of a novel RNA silencing suppressor, NSs protein of Tomato spotted wilt virus. Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Letters 532:75-79.

The Complete Tospovirus Resource Page http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/tospovirus/

Thrips Biology and Management http://thrips.ifas.ufl.edu/

Ullman, D.E., R. Meideros, L.R. Campbell, A.E. Whitfield, J.L. Sherwood and T.L. German. 2002. Thrips as vectors of tospoviruses. Advances in Botanical Research 36:113-140.

Virus databases on-line http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/vide/genus049.htm

Whitfield, A.E., K.K.N. Kumar, D. Rotenberg, D.E. Ullman, E.A. Wyman, C. Zietlow, D.K. Willis, and T.L. German. 2008. A soluble form of the tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) glycoprotein GN (GN-S) inhibits transmission of TSWV by Frankliniella occidentalis. Phytopathology 98:45-50.

Whitfield, A.E., D.E. Ullman, and T.L. German. 2005. Tospovirus-Thrips Interactions. 2005. Annual Review of Phytopathology 43:459-489.

Yudin, L.S., B.E. Tabashnik, J.J. Cho and W.C. Mitchell. 1990. Disease prediction and economic models for managing tomato spotted wilt virus diseases in lettuce. Plant Disease 74:211-215.