Genome sequencing of the sweetpotato whitefly #Bemsia tabaci# MED/Q

Xie W., Chen C., Yang Z., Guo L., Yang X., Wang D., Chen M., Huang J., Wen Y., Zeng Y., Liu Y., Xia J., Tian L., Cui H., Wu Q., Wang S., Wu B., Li X., Tan X., Ghanim M., Qiu B., Pan H., Chu D., Delatte H., Maruthi M.N., Ge F., Zhou X., Wang X., Wan F., Du Y., Luo C., Yan F., Preisser E.L., Jiao X., Coates B.S., Zhao J., Gao Q., Xia J., Yin Y., Liu Y., Brown J., Zhou X.J., Zhang Y.
2017

The sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a highly destructive agricultural and ornamental crop pest. It damages host plants through both phloem feeding and vectoring plant pathogens. Introductions of B. tabaci are difficult to quarantine and eradicate because of its high reproductive rates, broad host plant range, and insecticide resistance. A total of 791 Gb of raw DNA sequence from whole ...

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