Large-scale gene discovery in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera).

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Genome Biol. 2006;7(3):R21. doi: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-3-r21
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Large-scale gene discovery in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera). Stern Lab
Sabater-Muñoz B, Legeai F, Rispe C, Bonhomme J, Dearden P, Dossat C, Duclert A, Gauthier J, Ducray DG, Hunter W, Dang P, Kambhampati S, Martinez-Torres D, Cortes T, Moya A, Nakabachi A, Philippe C, Prunier-Leterme N, Rahbé Y, Simon J, Stern DL, Wincker P, Tagu D
Note: Research in this publication was not performed at Janelia.
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Abstract

Aphids are the leading pests in agricultural crops. A large-scale sequencing of 40,904 ESTs from the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum was carried out to define a catalog of 12,082 unique transcripts. A strong AT bias was found, indicating a compositional shift between Drosophila melanogaster and A. pisum. An in silico profiling analysis characterized 135 transcripts specific to pea-aphid tissues (relating to bacteriocytes and parthenogenetic embryos). This project is the first to address the genetics of the Hemiptera and of a hemimetabolous insect.

PMID: 16542494 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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David Stern
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