About the Authors

Drion G. Boucias

pathos@ufl.edu

Affiliations Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Henry M. Kariithi

Affiliations Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria, Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Kostas Bourtzis

Affiliation Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Daniela I. Schneider

Affiliation Laboratories of Genome Dynamics, Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Karen Kelley

Affiliation ICBR Electron Microscope Facility, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Wolfgang J. Miller

Affiliation Laboratories of Genome Dynamics, Center of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Andrew G. Parker

Affiliation Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Adly M. M. Abd-Alla

Affiliation Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB AA WM. Performed the experiments: DB HK DS KK. Analyzed the data: DB AP AA KB DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA WM. Wrote the paper: DB AA AP WM.