The cotton bollworm,Helicoverpa armigera,is set to become the most economically devastating crop pest in the world,threatening food security and biosafety as its range expands across the globe.Key to understanding the...The cotton bollworm,Helicoverpa armigera,is set to become the most economically devastating crop pest in the world,threatening food security and biosafety as its range expands across the globe.Key to understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics of H.armigera,and thus its management,is an understanding of population connectivity and the adaptations that allow the pest to establish in unique environments.We assembled a chromosome-scale reference genome and re-sequenced 503 individuals spanning the species range to delineate global patterns of connectivity,uncovering a previously cryptic population structure.展开更多
基金funded by the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Programof the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences andMajor Projects of Basic Research of Science,The Sci-Tech Innovation 2030 Agenda(2022ZD04021)the Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality,the United Kingdom’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council(BB/L026821/1)+4 种基金Research Councils UK(BB/P023444/1)(to K.W.)funded by BBSRC(BB/G105364/1)supported by the University of Cambridge Department of Zoologyfunded by EMBO fellowship ATSF-6889 and the CSIRO-Julius Award(R-91040-11)supported by the Lemann Brazil Research Fund from Harvard University.
文摘The cotton bollworm,Helicoverpa armigera,is set to become the most economically devastating crop pest in the world,threatening food security and biosafety as its range expands across the globe.Key to understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics of H.armigera,and thus its management,is an understanding of population connectivity and the adaptations that allow the pest to establish in unique environments.We assembled a chromosome-scale reference genome and re-sequenced 503 individuals spanning the species range to delineate global patterns of connectivity,uncovering a previously cryptic population structure.
