Submitted by Nathália Faria da Silva (nathaliafsilva.ufv@gmail.com) on 2017-07-04T17:18:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 210734 bytes, checksum: 04cf2efc39d6af7f9c279189699c040d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-04T17:18:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 210734 bytes, checksum: 04cf2efc39d6af7f9c279189699c040d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000-06-20 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Guidoval e Guiricema são municípios tradicionais produtores de cebola na Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais. Nesses municípios, durante um ano de inspeções de plantios de cebola, verificou-se que os principais problemas fitossanitários foram o ataque de Thrips spp. e a ocorrência das doenças: mancha púrpura e antracnose foliar, causadas por Alternaria porri (Ellis) Cif. e Colletorichum gloeosporioides, respectivamente. Dentre as doenças, a antracnose foliar é a principal e perdas de até 100% da produção foram observadas em lavoura da região. Estudou-se a importância de sementes, restos culturais e hospedeiros alternativos, como fontes de inóculo do patógeno e monitorou-se o progresso da doença. Não se detectou o patógeno em sementes. Verificou-se que o fungo pode sobreviver em restos de folhas doentes, em condições de laboratório e de campo. Em laboratório, o fungo foi detectado por até 137 dias nos restos mantidos em ambiente seco a 15, 20 e 30°C e nos mantidos em câmara úmida a 20°C. Em condições de campo, o patógeno foi detectado por até 118 dias na superfície e a 5 cm de profundidade e por até 33 e 72 dias a 10 e 15 cm de profundidade, respectivamente. Isolados de C. gloeosporioides de diferentes hospedeiros causaram sintomas em folhas de cebolas. Observou-se diferença de virulência de isolados em frutos de mamão, o que sugere haver variabilidade entre eles. Estudou-se o progresso da antracnose foliar em dois ensaios de campo. No primeiro, avaliou-se a incidência da doença em plantas originárias de mudas tratadas ou não com fungicidas no viveiro e, ou no transplantio. O tratamento de mudas no viveiro retardou o início da epidemia e o tratamento no transplantio reduziu os valores de área abaixo da curva de progresso e de incidência máxima de doença. No segundo, avaliou-se a incidência em plantas de quatro cultivares. Em ‘Régia’, obtiveram-se menores valores de incidência inicial de doença, de área abaixo da curva de progresso da doença e da taxa de progresso da doença. / Onion is cultivated tradicionally in Guidoval and Guiricema – MG, where crop losses due to the Twister, caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, can reach 100%. The role of seed, plant debris, and alternative hosts as inoculum sources of the pathogen, and disease progress were studied. The fungus was not detected associated with seeds. It survived in plant debris, under laboratory, and field conditions. In the laboratory, C. gloeosporioides was detected for 137 days in the debris kept at 15, 20, and 30°C, without moist chamber, and at 20°C in moist chamber. In the field, the pathogen survived for 118 days in debris kept on soil surface and at 5 cm depth and for 33 and 72 days at 10 and 15 cm depth, respectively. Isolates of C. gloeosporioides from different hosts caused disease symptoms in onion. The virulence of those isolates was variable in papaya fruits. Disease progress was studied in two field experiments. In the first, disease incidence was assessed in plants originated from fungicide treated. The use of fungicides in the nursery delayed the beginning of the epidemics and the treatment of seedlings for transplanting reduced the values of area under disease progress curve and maximum incidence. Epidemic components were similar for either plants treated or not before transplanting. For the second experiments, disease incidence was assessed in plants of four cultivars. Smaller values of initial disease incidence, area under disease progress curves and disease progress rate were estimated for ‘Régia’.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-07-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 jesus_fg_me_jabo.pdf: 365325 bytes, checksum: 4e8f173032ee930a6c8031cefe478e23 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Avaliou-se o comportamento de genótipos de feijoeiro dos tipos de grãos carioca e preto nas épocas de cultivo “das águas”, “da seca” e “de inverno” e grãos dos tipos especiais na época “da seca” sob a infestação de Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) biótipo B e Caliothrips phaseoli (Hood.) e a associação de genótipos e inseticidas no controle destas pragas em condições de campo. Utilizaram-se os genótipos IAC-Carioca Tybatã, IAC Una, FT-Nobre, Pérola, Gen 96A98-15-3-32-1, Gen 96A45-3-51-52-1, IAC Alvorada, IAC Diplomata, Gen 96A3-P1-1-1, LP 98-122, LP 02- 130, LP 01-38, LP 9979, BRS-Pontal, BRS-Requinte, BRS-Triunfo, BRS-Grafite, CV-48, Z-28 para os tipos carioca e preto e IAPAR 31, Rosinha G2, Jalo precoce, Pérola, IAC Harmonia, Gen 99TGR110, Gen 99TG2868, Gen 99TGR3416, Gen 99TG3450, Gen 99TG823, Gen 99TGR609, IAC Jaraguá, Gen 95A10061531, Gen 99TGR3114 e Gen 96A1473153V2 para os grãos dos tipos especiais. Com relação ao comportamento dos genótipos dos tipos carioca e preto, os menos ovipositados pela B. tabaci biótipo B foram IAC Una, LP 98-122, BRS-Pontal, Pérola, Gen 96A45 3-51-52-1 e BRS-Triunfo. As menores presenças de ninfas de mosca branca foram observadas em LP 01-38 e IAC Alvorada e maiores em Z - 28. C. phaseoli foi encontrado em menor número em BRS-Triunfo, LP 9979, LP 98-122 e BRS-Requinte e maior número nos genótipos LP 02-130, BRS-Grafite, IAC Alvorada e IAC Diplomata. Para os grãos dos tipos especiais, os genótipos menos ovipositados pela B. tabaci biótipo B foram IAC Harmonia, Pérola, Gen TG3114 e Gen 95A10061531, enquanto os mais ovipositados destacaram IAC Jaraguá e Gen 99TG3450; as menores infestações de ninfas de B. tabaci biótipo B foram observadas em Pérola e IAC Harmonia e maior em IAC Jaraguá; e, todos os genótipos foram suscetível ao C. phaseoli... / The comportment of bean genotypes carioca and black grain was evaluated on field conditions on the water, dry and winter season and bean genotypes special type grains on dry season and under the infestation of Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) biotype B and Caliothrips phaseoli (Hood) and of common beans genotypes associated or not the insecticides use this pest in field conditions. The genotypes used were: IACCarioca Tybatã, IAC-Una, FT-Nobre, Pérola, Gen 96A98-15-3-32-1, Gen 96A45-3-51- 52-1, IAC Alvorada, IAC Diplomata, Gen 96A3-P1-1-1, LP 98-122, LP 02-130, LP 01-38, LP 9979, BRS-Pontal, BRS-Requinte, BRS-Triunfo, BRS-Grafite, CV-48, Z-28 for the type carioca and black grains and IAPAR 31, Rosinha G2, Jalo precoce, Pérola, IAC Harmonia, Gen 99TGR110, Gen 99TG2868, Gen 99TGR3416, Gen 99TG3450, Gen 99TG823, Gen 99TGR609, IAC Jaragua, Gen 95A10061531, Gen 99TGR3114 e Gen 96A1473153V2 for the type special grain. With relation at comportment carioca and black grain, the less oviposition genotypes by B. tabaci biotype B were IAC Una, LP 98- 122, BRS-Pontal and Perola, while the most oviposited were Gen 96A45 3-51-52-1 and BRS-Triunfo. The less presence of nymphs of whitefly were observed on LP 01-38 and IAC Alvorada and the most at Z-28. C. phaesoli was found in less number on BRSTriunfo, LP 9979, LP 98-122 and BRS-Requinte and more on the LP 02-130, BRSGrafite, IAC Alvorada and IAC Diplomata genotypes. For the type special grain, the less oviposition genotypes by B. tabaci biotype B were IAC Harmonia, Pérola, Gen TG3114 e Gen 95A10061531, while the most oviposited were IAC Jaraguá and Gen 99TG3450; the less presence of nymphs of whitefly was observed on Pérola and IAC Harmonia and the most at IAC Jaraguá; every genotypes were susceptible to attack of C. phaseoli; when associated insectised with genotypes, less oviposition genotypes by B. tabaci biotype B were LP 9979 and IAC Jaragua,... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Plant Pathology / Anna E. Whitfield / The Bunyaviridae is a family of animal and plant viruses that pose a threat to human, animal, and plant health worldwide. In nature, the dissemination of these viruses is dependent on arthropod vectors (genera Orthobunyavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus, and Tospovirus) or rodent vectors (genus Hantavirus). The genus Tospovirus is the only one within this virus family that is composed of plant-infecting viruses transmitted by thrips. Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), the type species of the Tospovirus genus, is one of the ten most devastating plant viruses known. It is most efficiently transmitted by the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande, in a persistant propagative manner. The insect molecules associated with virus infection and transmission by the thrips vector remain unidentified to date. The aim of this work was to identify F. occidentalis larval thrips proteins that are differentially expressed during TSWV infection of the insect vector and those that directly interact with TSWV. To achieve these goals, I used two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry coupled with Mascot searches. I identified 26 protein spots that displayed differential abundances in response to TSWV infection, which contained 37 proteins. Sixty two percent of these proteins were down-regulated by the viral infection demonstrating a complex response. Moreover, 8 and 11 protein spots that directly interacted with purified TSWV virions and a TSWV glycoprotein (GN), respectively, were identified in overlay assays of larval thrips proteins resolved by 2-D gel electrophoresis. A total of five proteins were identified from these spots. These interacting proteins might play roles in attachment and entry, endocytosis/exocytosis, and escape from different tissues for transmission to occur. Injection of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) into adult female thrips triggered an RNAi response that resulted in 23% reduction of the target gene transcript level. This significant reduction resulted in increased mortality and decreased fertility compared to insects injected with control dsRNA or water and non-injected insects as well. The work presented here provides new insights on the molecular basis of this virus-vector interaction and describes new tools to conduct functional genomic assays to study gene function and design control strategies of F. occidentalis.

Neonicotinoid seed treatments are widely used and highly effective against early season insect pests of all row crops throughout the Mid-South region of the United States. An analysis was performed to determine the value of neonicotinoid seed treatments across multiple trials in soybean, Glycine max L.; corn, Zea mays L.; cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L.; and sorghum, Sorghum bicolor L. production systems across the mid-southern region. Neonicotinoid seed treatments provided significant yield and economic increases when utilized the majority of the time. A second experiment was performed to determine the value of various insecticide classes when utilized in an overall systems approach when managing cotton insect pest in the Delta and Hills region of Mississippi. When all classes of insecticides were used in rotation, significant yield and economic benefits were observed in the Delta Region compared to treatment scenarios where some insecticide classes were omitted.

Research was conducted 2014-2016 to determine how tobacco thrips (Frankliniella fusca) (Hinds) resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides impact thrips resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides in cotton, Gossypium hirsutum (L.).Studies included bioassays to determine severity and mechanism of resistance and evaluation of host plant characteristics in multiple cotton varieties. Another aspect of research focused on the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin and its leaching ability as a seed treatment on corn by evaluating soil type, water regime, and amount found in tissue.

Thrips are pests in a variety of crops and are responsible for millions of dollars in damage worldwide. In Virginia there are a few key thrips species that cause a large portion of damage to both vegetable and floricultural crops. Three prominent pests include Frankliniella tritici (Fitch), Frankliniella fusca (Hinds), and Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande). Significant yield losses in row crops such as cotton, peanuts and vegetables have been attributed to feeding and oviposition of these insects in high densities. In addition, both F. fusca and F. occidentalis can transmit plant pathogenic tospoviruses, such as tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), in certain susceptible crops. While all of these thrips species are difficult to detect due to their cryptic lifestyles, F. occidentalis is a particularly challenging pest to manage due to its resistance to many insecticides commonly used for thrips treatment. Early spring weeds were sampled for the presence of F. occidentalis in 2008 and 2009 in eastern Virginia. Weed samples consisted of mustard, henbit and wild radish and were collected from several different sites on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. During the summer of 2008, 2009 and 2010 various agroecosystems were sampled for the relative incidence of F. occidentalis. Overall, thrips numbers were very low in weed samples. F. occidentalis was detected in early spring weed samples in 2009 at a few of the sites sampled. In nearly every habitat, the species composition was dominated by F. fusca and F. tritici, with F. occidentalis occurring in very low numbers. Two different lures were evaluated in their ability to attract Frankliniella spp. thrips. The lures included Chemtica P-178 floral kairomone (AgBio Inc., Westminster, CO), a floral iii kairomone lure composed of a proprietary floral compound mixture, and ThriplineAMS (Syngenta Bioline Ltd., Oxnard, CA) pheromone lure, containing the aggregation pheromone of F. occidentalis. In spring 2009 and 2010 lure experiments were conducted in several different agroecosystems including: a tomato and potato field in Painter, VA, a cotton and peanut field in Suffolk, VA, and grass fields near a greenhouse in Virginia Beach, VA, and a high tunnel in Chesapeake, VA, as well as within these structures. Baited and non-baited sticky cards were arranged in a completely randomized design, with a pan trap located in the center of each plot. Traps were collected approximately twice weekly. F. fusca numbers were low and catches on sticky cards were not significantly affected by either lure. Sticky cards baited with the kairomone caught more flower thrips than traps baited with the pheromone, or the non-baited traps, especially when thrips numbers were high. Several biologically derived insecticides including: essential oils, spinetoram, spinosad, pyrethrins, and azadirachtin, were evaluated in their efficacy against thrips in several different crops. Randomized complete block design experiments were carried out in: tomatoes, snap beans, collards, soybeans, cotton and peanuts grown in several locations in southeastern Virginia in 2009 and 2010. Both spinetoram and spinosad reduced thrips numbers the most effectively compared with the untreated control. Peanut and cotton treated with spinosad, and treatments containing spinetoram suffered less thrips injury compared with the control, and yield was higher in cotton plots treated with spinetoram. / Master of Science in Life Sciences

Mealybugs (Planococcus citri) and thrips (Scirtothrips aurantii) are common and extremely damaging citrus crop pests which have proven difficult to control via conventional methods, such as chemical pesticides and insect growth regulators. The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of entomopathogenic fungi against these pests in laboratory bioassays. Isolates of Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana from citrus orchards in the Eastern Cape, South Africa were maintained on Sabouraud Dextrose 4% Agar supplemented with Dodine, chloramphenicol and rifampicin at 25°C. Infectivity of the fungal isolates was initially assessed using 5th instar false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta, larvae. Mealybug bioassays were performed in 24 well plates using 1 x 107 ml-1 conidial suspensions and kept at 26°C for 5 days with a photoperiod of 12 L:12 D. A Beauveria commercial product and an un-inoculated control were also screened for comparison. Isolates GAR 17 B3 (B. bassiana) and FCM AR 23 B3 (M. anisopliae) both resulted in 67.5% mealybug crawler mortality and GB AR 23 13 3 (B. bassiana) resulted in 64% crawler mortality. These 3 isolates were further tested in dose-dependent assays. Probit analyses were conducted on the dose-dependent assays data using PROBAN to determine LC₅₀ values. For both the mealybug adult and crawlers FCM AR 23 B3 required the lowest concentration to achieve LC₅₀ at 4.96 x 10⁶ conidia ml-1 and 5.29 x 10⁵ conidia ml-1, respectively. Bioassays on adult thrips were conducted in munger cells with leaf buds inoculated with the conidial suspensions. Isolate GAR 17 B3 had the highest mortality rate at 70% on thrips while FCM AR 23 B3 resulted in 60% mortality. Identification of the isolates, FCM AR 23 B3, GAR 17 B3 and GB AR 23 13 3, were confirmed to be correct using both microscopic and molecularly techniques. ITS sequences were compared to other sequences from GenBank and confirmed phylogenetically using MEGA6. Mealybug infection was investigated using scanning electron microscopy, mycosis was confirmed but the infection process could not be followed due to the extensive waxy cuticle. These results indicate that there is potential for the isolates FCM AR 23 B3 and GAR 17 B3 to be developed as biological control agents for the control of citrus mealybug and thrips. Further research would be required to determine their ability to perform under field conditions.

Master of Science / Department of Entomology / David C. Margolies / James R. Nechols / A two-year greenhouse experiment was conducted to compare the relative effectiveness of biological control versus chemical control for western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, as a means of reducing the spread of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) on tomatoes. To compare efficacy of different thrips management tactics for reducing TSWV incidence, tomatoes were subjected to one of three treatments: 1) biological control based on weekly releases of the predatory mite, Amblyseius cucumeris, at a commercially-recommended rate, 2) a single chemical treatment with Conserve®, a spinosad formulation, or 3) no treatment. TSWV was introduced into the greenhouse either by starting with 20% of the crop already infected and releasing non-viruliferous thrips, or by making a single release of viruliferous thrips. Analyses were done among thrips management tactics for each virus introduction method to examine the cumulative number of weeks plants were infected, the weekly proportion of infected plants, and total marketable yield. The effects of different virus introduction methods were also compared. A comparison of virus introduction methods showed that, among all plants, the average number of weeks they were infected by TSWV was significantly lower when virus was introduced through infected plants than by infected thrips. In addition, when virus was introduced by infected thrips, a significantly greater proportion of plants were infected in any given week than when virus was introduced on infected plants. Finally, crop yields were significantly lower when virus was introduced via infected thrips than on infected plants. Among thrips management methods, plants were infected for significantly less time, and the proportion infected was lower in any given week, when biological or chemical control was applied compared to no thrips management. Tomato yields were not affected by thrips management tactic. There was no significant difference between biological and chemical control in the length of time that plants showed symptoms. However, the proportion of infected plants was marginally greater with biological control in weeks 4 and 5 than with chemical control; differences were not significant thereafter. My findings suggest that inundative releases of biological control may provide as adequate a level of protection from TSWV as chemical control in commercial greenhouse tomato crops.

A distribuição espacial de insetos e doenças em campos comerciais é importante, por exemplo, para aplicação racional de pesticidas. Entretanto, não tem sido considerada nas recomendações de manejo da cultura, planejamento de experimentos e estudos amostrais, sendo escassa literatura a esse respeito. Os artigos apresentados nessa tese foram motivados por duas situações diferentes, uma envolvendo dados de contagem e a outra, dados binários. Os dois modelos diferem em relação às estratégias da descrição da estrutura de dependência espacial. No primeiro artigo, a variável resposta é contagem. Para caracterizar o padrão espacial da dispersão do tripes do prateamento da cebola foi feito um levantamento anotando-se o número de insetos por fase de desenvolvimento em folhas de plantas de cebola, em diferentes datas e pontos amostrais dentro de quatro propriedades com fazendas vizinhas apresentando diferentes níveis de infestação e métodos de plantio. O teste de aleatorização de Mantel foi utilizado para testar a presença de padrão espacial, que quando detectado foi descrito por um modelo de Poisson misto espacial com componente aleatório geoestatístico. Tal modelo possibilitou a caracterização do padrão espacial bem como a obtenção de mapas de predição dos níveis de susceptibilidade à infestação na área. No segundo artigo a variável resposta é binária e foi feito um estudo de simulação para verificar o comportamento dos estimadores de pseudo-verossimilhança dos parâmetros do modelo autologístico, considerando diferentes estruturas de covariáveis e de vizinhança, três intensidades de infestação de uma praga e cinco valores para o parâmetro de correlação entre os vizinhos. Uma aplicação dos modelos considerados no estudo de simulação é feita a um conjunto de dados provenientes de um experimento com pimentão. Mostra-se que o método de estimação por pseudo-verossimilhança pode ser usado, com certa cautela, quando o interesse está na contribuição das covariáveis, mas não deve ser usado quando o interesse está na estimação da correlação espacial. Um estudo com diferentes porcentagens de dados faltantes foi feito para verificar a influência na estimação do parâmetro. / The spatial distribution of insects and diseases in commercial fields is important for the efficient application of pesticides. However, in the past this has not been considered in crop management recommendations, experiment planning and sampling plans. The papers presented in this thesis were motivated by two different situation, one envolving count data and the other binary data. The two models used differ in relation to the strategies of the description of the spatial dependence structure. In the the first paper the response variable is a count. In order to characterize the spatial distribution pattern of the onion thrips a survey was carried out to record the number of insects in each development phase on onion plant leaves, on different dates and sample locations, in four rural properties with neighboring farms with different infestation levels and planting methods. The Mantel randomization test was used to test for spatial correlation, and when detected this was modelled by a mixed spatial Poisson model with a geostatistic random component. This model has allowed a spatial pattern characterization as well as the production of prediction maps of susceptibility to levels of infestation in the area. In the second paper the response variable is binary. In this paper a simulation study on pseudo-likelihood estimators of autologistic parameters to verify the effect of different covariate and neighbouring structures is described, with three pest infestation levels and five different spatial correlation coefficient values. An application of the methodology is presented using a bell pepper data set. It is shown that the pseudo-likelihood method can be used when a researcher is interested in the effect of covariates, but should not be used for the estimation of the spatial correlation. A study with different percentages of missing data is made to verify the influency on parameter estimation.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T19:59:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Oliveira Brito.pdf: 1923139 bytes, checksum: 08b643e5706fe65ed2608e5a4ed4e1e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The order Thysanoptera comprises small insects known as thrips, which present different life histories and habits; they reproduce by haplodiploidy, and reached the status of prague by their feeding damage to plants. Their systematics, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships are complicated, due to the small morphological variation among the taxa. Thus, this study aimed to analyze three species of the family Phlaeothripidae: Gynaikothrips uzeli, Liothrips sp. and Pseudophilothrips gandolfoi through conventional and molecular cytogenetics giving emphasis to the evolutionary processes that have occurred during the differentiation karyotype in the group, reinforcing the importance of cytogenetic studies as a tool for taxonomy of order, in addition to estimate genetic population parameters of G. uzeli. To that end, we analyzed the diploid number, the chromosome morphology, the distribution pattern of the heterochromatic regions, the chromosomes bearing Ag-NORs and performed mapping physical for cístrons of rDNA 18S. In addition, it was estimated the genetic variability and population structure of G. uzeli through the RAPD marker. The results obtained with the probe of 18S rDNA revealed a pair chromosomal bearer of RON in the three species, however, in G. uzeli only one of the elements of chromosomal 13 pair was marked. In addition, the results of cytogenetic analysis indicate that the genera Pseudophilothrips and Liothrips display strong similarities in their chromosomal complements. The low genetic variability, observed with the RAPD marker for G. uzeli, and result of the system of sexual determination haplodiploidy and ecological features. The cytogenetic analysis revealed differences that are difficult to observe the morphological level, demonstrating the importance of this methodology for systematic and taxonomy and clarification of complex evolutionary patterns presented in the order. / A ordem Thysanoptera compreende pequenos insetos conhecidos como tripes, os quais apresentam diversas histórias de vida e hábitos, se reproduzem por haplodiploidia, e alcançaram o status de praga por sua alimentação danificar as plantas. Sua sistemática, taxonomia e relações filogenéticas são complicadas, devido à pequena variação morfológica entre os taxa. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar três espécies da família Phlaeothripidae: Gynaikothrips uzeli, Liothrips sp. e Pseudophilothrips gandolfoi através de citogenética convencional e molecular dando ênfase aos processos evolutivos que ocorreram durante a diferenciação cariotípica do grupo, reforçando a importância da citogenética como ferramenta para taxonomia da ordem, além de estimar parâmetros genético populacionais de G. uzeli. Para tal, foi analisado o número diplóide, a morfologia cromossômica, o padrão de distribuição das regiões heterocromáticas, os cromossomos portadores de Ag-RONs e realizado o mapeamento físico dos cístrons de rDNA 18S. Além disso, foi estimada a variabilidade genética e a estrutura populacional de G. uzeli através do marcador RAPD. Os resultados obtidos com a sonda de rDNA 18S revelaram um par cromossômico portador da RON nas três espécies, no entanto, em G. uzeli somente um dos elementos cromossômicos do 13º par foi marcado. Em adição, os resultados da análise citogenética indicam que os gêneros Pseudophilothrips e Liothrips apresentam grandes semelhanças em seus complementos cromossômicos. A Baixa variabilidade genética, observada com o marcador RAPD, para G. uzeli, é resultado do sistema de determinação sexual haplodiplóide e de características ecológicas. As análises citogenéticas revelaram diferenças que são difíceis de observar no nível morfológico, demonstrando a importância desta metodologia para a sistemática e a taxonomia e no esclarecimento dos complexos padrões evolutivos apresentado pela ordem.