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Mexico<br />

omissions or errors found <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>se<br />

chapters. Data provided by<br />

collaborat<strong>in</strong>g national scientists are<br />

dutifully acknowledged <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

correspond<strong>in</strong>g chapters. Several<br />

national scientists <strong>and</strong> students<br />

collaborat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> project conducted<br />

socio-economic studies. Most of <strong>the</strong><br />

survey data presented have been<br />

published as <strong>the</strong>ses by <strong>the</strong>ir ma<strong>in</strong><br />

authors, also <strong>in</strong>cluded as co-authors <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> correspond<strong>in</strong>g chapters. Special<br />

acknowledgements are due to <strong>the</strong><br />

professional personnel of <strong>the</strong> CIAT<br />

Plant Virology Laboratory, who<br />

processed most of <strong>the</strong> samples of<br />

whiteflies <strong>and</strong> <strong>viruses</strong> analysed <strong>in</strong> this<br />

Whiteflies <strong>and</strong> <strong>Whitefly</strong>-<strong>borne</strong> Viruses <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Tropics<br />

Guatemala<br />

El Salvador<br />

Costa Rica<br />

Honduras<br />

Cuba<br />

Nicaragua<br />

Panama<br />

Figure 1. Regions <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Neo<strong>tropics</strong> affected by <strong>whitefly</strong>-transmitted <strong>viruses</strong> (shaded areas).<br />

Haiti<br />

extensive survey: Claritza Gómez, Raúl<br />

Sedano, Ana Kar<strong>in</strong>e Martínez, Ana<br />

Cecilia Velasco, Mauricio Castaño, José<br />

Arroyave, Iván Lozano, Natalia Villareal<br />

<strong>and</strong> Maritza Cuervo. Special thanks are<br />

due to Ms. María del Pilar Hernández,<br />

CIAT’s <strong>whitefly</strong> taxonomist, for<br />

exam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g all <strong>the</strong> <strong>whitefly</strong> specimens<br />

collected dur<strong>in</strong>g this <strong>in</strong>vestigation. Last<br />

but not least, we recognize <strong>the</strong> work of<br />

Dr. Lee Calvert, who supervised <strong>the</strong><br />

molecular characterization of B. tabaci<br />

biotypes <strong>and</strong> Trialeurodes vaporariorum<br />

(Westwood) (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae)<br />

specimens collected dur<strong>in</strong>g this<br />

<strong>in</strong>vestigation.

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