Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera

JM De Vos, H Augustijnen… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Changes in chromosome numbers may strongly affect reproductive barriers, because
individuals heterozygous for distinct karyotypes are typically expected to be at least partially …

Transposable elements and the evolution of insects

C Gilbert, J Peccoud, R Cordaux - Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Insects are major contributors to our understanding of the interaction between transposable
elements (TEs) and their hosts, owing to seminal discoveries, as well as to the growing …

Genetic structure and insecticide resistance characteristics of fall armyworm populations invading China

L Zhang, B Liu, W Zheng, C Liu… - Molecular Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid wide‐scale spread of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has caused serious
crop losses globally. However, differences in the genetic background of subpopulations and …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic adaptation to polyphagy and insecticides in a major East Asian noctuid pest

T Cheng, J Wu, Y Wu, RV Chilukuri, L Huang… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
The tobacco cutworm, Spodoptera litura, is among the most widespread and destructive
agricultural pests, feeding on over 100 crops throughout tropical and subtropical Asia. By …

[HTML][HTML] Two genomes of highly polyphagous lepidopteran pests (Spodoptera frugiperda, Noctuidae) with different host-plant ranges

A Gouin, A Bretaudeau, K Nam, S Gimenez, JM Aury… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Emergence of polyphagous herbivorous insects entails significant adaptation to recognize,
detoxify and digest a variety of host-plants. Despite of its biological and practical importance …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic innovations, transcriptional plasticity and gene loss underlying the evolution and divergence of two highly polyphagous and invasive Helicoverpa …

SL Pearce, DF Clarke, PD East, S Elfekih, KHJ Gordon… - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa zea are major caterpillar pests
of Old and New World agriculture, respectively. Both, particularly H. armigera, are extremely …

[HTML][HTML] Apollo: democratizing genome annotation

NA Dunn, DR Unni, C Diesh… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens

C Mayer, L Dietz, E Call, S Kukowka… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

[HTML][HTML] Fall webworm genomes yield insights into rapid adaptation of invasive species

N Wu, S Zhang, X Li, Y Cao, X Liu, Q Wang… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Invasive species cause considerable ecological and economic damage. Despite decades of
broad impacts of invasives on diversity and agriculture, the genetic adaptations and near …

Functional characterization of CYP6AE subfamily P450s associated with pyrethroid detoxification in Spodoptera litura

T Xiao, K Lu - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2022 - Elsevier
The common cutworm, Spodoptera litura, has developed with varying degrees of resistance
to most commonly used insecticides. Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) with …