Tissue-Specific Transcriptomics of the Exotic Invasive Insect Pest Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)

O Mittapalli, X Bai, P Mamidala, SP Rajarapu… - PLoS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background The insect midgut and fat body represent major tissue interfaces that deal with
several important physiological functions including digestion, detoxification and immune …

Transcriptome Analysis of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis: De Novo Assembly, Functional Annotation and Comparative Analysis

J Duan, T Ladd, D Doucet, M Cusson… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The Emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis, is an invasive phloem-
feeding insect pest of ash trees. Since its initial discovery near the Detroit, US-Windsor …