Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests.
Dorith RotenbergAaron A BaumannSulley Ben-MahmoudOlivier ChristiaensWannes DermauwPanagiotis IoannidisChris G C JacobsIris M Vargas JentzschJonathan E OliverMonica F PoelchauSwapna Priya RajarapuDerek J SchneweisSimon SnoeckClauvis N T TaningDong WeiShirani M K Widana GamageDaniel S T HughesShwetha C MuraliSamuel T BaileyNicolas E BejermanChristopher J HolmesEmily C JenningsAndrew J RosendaleAndrew RosselotKaylee HerveyBrandi A SchneweisSammy ChengChristopher ChildersFelipe A SimãoRalf G DietzgenHsu ChaoHuyen DinhHarsha Vardhan DoddapaneniShannon DuganYi HanSandra L LeeDonna M MuznyJiaxin QuKim C WorleyJoshua B BenoitMarkus FriedrichJeffery W JonesKristen A PanfilioYoonseong ParkHugh M RobertsonGuy SmaggheDiane E UllmanMaurijn van der ZeeThomas Van LeeuwenJan A VeenstraRobert M WaterhouseMatthew T WeirauchJohn H WerrenAnna E WhitfieldEvgeny M ZdobnovRichard A GibbsStephen RichardsPublished in: BMC biology (2020)
Analysis of the F. occidentalis genome offers insights into the polyphagous behavior of this insect pest that finds, colonizes, and survives on a widely diverse array of plants. The genomic resources presented here enable a more complete analysis of insect evolution and biology, providing a missing taxon for contemporary insect genomics-based analyses. Our study also offers a genomic benchmark for molecular and evolutionary investigations of other Thysanoptera species.