PMID- 28505182 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170920 LR - 20240326 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 5 DP - 2017 TI - Using NextRAD sequencing to infer movement of herbivores among host plants. PG - e0177742 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0177742 [doi] LID - e0177742 AB - Herbivores often move among spatially interspersed host plants, tracking high-quality resources through space and time. This dispersal is of particular interest for vectors of plant pathogens. Existing molecular tools to track such movement have yielded important insights, but often provide insufficient genetic resolution to infer spread at finer spatiotemporal scales. Here, we explore the use of Nextera-tagmented reductively-amplified DNA (NextRAD) sequencing to infer movement of a highly-mobile winged insect, the potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli), among host plants. The psyllid vectors the pathogen that causes zebra chip disease in potato (Solanum tuberosum), but understanding and managing the spread of this pathogen is limited by uncertainty about the insect's host plant(s) outside of the growing season. We identified 1,978 polymorphic loci among psyllids separated spatiotemporally on potato or in patches of bittersweet nightshade (S. dulcumara), a weedy plant proposed to be the source of potato-colonizing psyllids. A subset of the psyllids on potato exhibited genetic similarity to insects on nightshade, consistent with regular movement between these two host plants. However, a second subset of potato-collected psyllids was genetically distinct from those collected on bittersweet nightshade; this suggests that a currently unrecognized source, i.e., other nightshade patches or a third host-plant species, could be contributing to psyllid populations in potato. Oftentimes, dispersal of vectors of pathogens must be tracked at a fine scale in order to understand, predict, and manage disease spread. We demonstrate that emerging sequencing technologies that detect genome-wide SNPs of a vector can be used to infer such localized movement. FAU - Fu, Zhen AU - Fu Z AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8120-590X AD - Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America. FAU - Epstein, Brendan AU - Epstein B AD - School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America. FAU - Kelley, Joanna L AU - Kelley JL AD - School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America. FAU - Zheng, Qi AU - Zheng Q AD - Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America. FAU - Bergland, Alan O AU - Bergland AO AD - Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America. FAU - Castillo Carrillo, Carmen I AU - Castillo Carrillo CI AD - Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America. FAU - Jensen, Andrew S AU - Jensen AS AD - Northwest Potato Research Consortium, Lakeview, Oregon, United States of America. FAU - Dahan, Jennifer AU - Dahan J AD - Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America. FAU - Karasev, Alexander V AU - Karasev AV AD - Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America. FAU - Snyder, William E AU - Snyder WE AD - Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170515 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Computational Biology/methods MH - Hemiptera/classification/genetics MH - *Herbivory MH - High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing/*methods MH - Host-Parasite Interactions MH - Host-Pathogen Interactions MH - Phylogeny MH - *Plant Diseases/microbiology/parasitology MH - *Plants MH - Solanum/parasitology MH - Solanum tuberosum/parasitology PMC - PMC5432177 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2017/05/16 06:00 MHDA- 2017/09/21 06:00 PMCR- 2017/05/15 CRDT- 2017/05/16 06:00 PHST- 2016/11/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/05/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/05/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/05/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/09/21 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/05/15 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-16-46089 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0177742 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2017 May 15;12(5):e0177742. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177742. eCollection 2017.