In the wake of constant improvements in sequencing technologies, numerous insect
genomes have been sequenced. Currently, 1219 insect genome‐sequencing projects have …

Simple Summary Tephritid fruit flies comprise pests of high agricultural relevance and
species that have emerged as global invaders. Chemical signals play key roles in multiple …

Abstract Background Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa zea are major caterpillar pests
of Old and New World agriculture, respectively. Both, particularly H. armigera, are extremely …

Genome annotation is the process of identifying the location and function of a genome's
encoded features. Improving the biological accuracy of annotation is a complex and iterative …

Comparisons of genomes of different species are used to identify lineage-specific genes,
those genes that appear unique to one species or clade. Lineage-specific genes are often …

The codling moth Cydia pomonella, a major invasive pest of pome fruit, has spread around
the globe in the last half century. We generated a chromosome-level scaffold assembly …

Background Arthropods comprise the largest and most diverse phylum on Earth and play
vital roles in nearly every ecosystem. Their diversity stems in part from variations on a …

Animals adapt their behaviors to specific ecological niches, but the genetic and cellular
basis of nervous system evolution is poorly understood. We have compared the olfactory …

In insects, rapidly evolving primary sex-determining signals are transduced by a conserved
regulatory module controlling sexual differentiation. In the agricultural pest Ceratitis capitata …

Biological control is widely successful at controlling pests, but effective biocontrol agents are
now more difficult to import from countries of origin due to more restrictive international trade …