Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

High-throughput sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the life sciences. The past 12
months have seen a burst of genome sequences from non-model organisms, in each case …

We used 20 de novo genome assemblies to probe the speciation history and architecture of
gene flow in rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Our tests to distinguish incomplete …

Pearl millet [Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone] is a staple food for more than 90 million
farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa, India and South Asia. We report …

Gossypium hirsutum has proven difficult to sequence owing to its complex allotetraploid
(AtDt) genome. Here we produce a draft genome using 181-fold paired-end sequences …

Summary Butterflies (Papilionoidea), with over 18,000 described species [1], have
captivated naturalists and scientists for centuries. They play a central role in the study of …

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 …

Although many de novo genome assembly projects have recently been conducted using
high-throughput sequencers, assembling highly heterozygous diploid genomes is a …

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 …

In 2008, the genome assembly and gene models for the domestic silkworm, Bombyx mori,
were published by a Japanese and Chinese collaboration group. However, the genome …