Simple Summary The red palm weevil (RPW) Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae) is a species of beetle that depends on palm trees to complete its life cycle …

Despite the huge human and economic costs of invasive insects, which are the main group
of invasive species, their environmental impacts through various mechanisms remain …

Long-read sequencing, exemplified by PacBio, revolutionizes genomics, overcoming
challenges like repetitive sequences. However, the high DNA requirement (> 1 µg) is …

Over the last few years, various types of NGS data have been accumulating for the coconut
rhinoceros beetle (CRB, Oryctes rhinoceros), reflecting the growing interest in curtailing this …

Background Mitochondrial genome sequences have become critical to the study of
biodiversity. Genome skimming and other short-read based methods are the most common …

The cecidomyiid fly, soybean gall midge, Resseliella maxima Gagné, is a recently
discovered insect that feeds on soybean plants in the Midwestern United States. R. maxima …

Although homomorphic sex chromosomes can have non-recombining regions with elevated
sequence divergence between its complements, such divergence signals can be difficult to …

Results: With the PacBio data we recovered at least one of the two fragments for 96% of 28
samples (~ 80% of input amplicons) with mean coverage~ 1,500 x. The ONT data recovered …