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Vector-Virus Mutualism Accelerates Population Increase of an Invasive Whitefly 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 Min Jiu , Xue-Ping Zhou , Lin Tong , Jing Xu , Xiao Yang , Fang-Hao Wan , Shu-Sheng Liu * 1 Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2 Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 3 Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China The relationships between plant viruses, their herbivore vectors and host plants can be beneficial, neutral, or antagonistic, depending on the species involved. This variation in relationships may affect the process of biological invasion and the displacement of indigenous species by invaders when the invasive and indigenous organisms occur with niche overlap but differ in the interactions. The notorious invasive B biotype of the whitefly complex Bemisia tabaci entered China in the late 1990s and is now the predominant or only biotype in many regions of the country. Tobacco curly shoot virus (TbCSV) and Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV) are two whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses that have become widespread recently in south China. We compared the performance of the invasive B and indigenous ZHJ1 whitefly biotypes on healthy, TbCSV-infected and TYLCCNV-infected tobacco plants. Compared to its performance on healthy plants, the invasive B biotype increased its fecundity and longevity by 12 and 6 fold when feeding on TbCSV-infected plants, and by 18 and 7 fold when feeding on TYLCCNV-infected plants. Population density of the B biotype on TbCSV- and TYLCCNV-infected plants reached 2 and 13 times that on healthy plants respectively in 56 days. In contrast, the indigenous ZHJ1 performed similarly on healthy and virus-infected plants. Virus-infection status of the whiteflies per se o