{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["005:18"], "contactPoint": {"fn": "Angelella, Gina, M.", "hasEmail": "mailto:gina.angelella@usda.gov"}, "description": "<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>Wolbachia</i>-infected and uninfected subpopulations of beet leafhoppers, <i>Circulifer tenellus</i> (Baker) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), co-occur in the Columbia Basin region of Washington and Oregon. While facultative endosymbionts such as <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i> have demonstrably altered feeding/probing behavior in hemipteran hosts, the behavioral phenotypes conferred by <i>Wolbachia</i> to its insect hosts, including feeding/probing, are largely understudied. We studied the feeding/probing behavior of beet leafhoppers from in-house colonies with and without <i>Wolbachia </i>on plants using electropenetrography, along with corresponding inoculation rates of beet curly top virus (BCTV), a phloem-limited plant pathogen vectored by beet leafhoppers. Insects carrying BCTV with and without <i>Wolbachia </i>were individually recorded for four hours while interacting with a potato plant, and wavelengths annotated following established conventions. Virus inoculation rates and the duration of phloem salivation events did not vary. <i>Wolbachia</i>-infected insects more than tripled the duration of phloem ingestion, but despite this, <i>Wolbachia</i> infection was linked with marginally lower, not enhanced, acquisition. Regardless, results suggest potential for <i>Wolbachia </i>to increase the acquisition rate of other phloem-limited plant pathogens.</p>", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/51828686", "format": "csv", "mediaType": "text/csv", "title": "raw_waveform_data.csv"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/51828689", "format": "txt", "mediaType": "text/plain", "title": "README.txt"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/51828692", "format": "csv", "mediaType": "text/csv", "title": "waveform_summaries.csv"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/51828695", "format": "csv", "mediaType": "text/csv", "title": "BCTV_acquisition.csv"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/51828698", "format": "csv", "mediaType": "text/csv", "title": "BCTV_inoculation.csv"}], "identifier": "10.15482/USDA.ADC/28248941.v1", "keyword": ["beet leafhopper", "Circulifer tenellus", "beet curly top virus", "BCTV", "potato", "Solanum tuberosum", "electropenetrograph", "EPG"], "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "modified": "2025-01-22", "programCode": ["005:040"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "Agricultural Research Service"}, "temporal": "2023-02-01/2024-10-01", "title": "Data from: <i>Wolbachia </i>infection modifies phloem feeding behavior but not plant virus transmission by a hemipteran host"}