Dear Editor,The characteristics and importance of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci as an economic pest seem to continually get more and more attention.Among the whiteflies B.tabaci including,at least 11 genetic groups and ...Dear Editor,The characteristics and importance of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci as an economic pest seem to continually get more and more attention.Among the whiteflies B.tabaci including,at least 11 genetic groups and 36 morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species,invasive MEAMl(Middle East-Asia Minor 1,"B"type)and MED(the Mediterranean,"Q"type)are the 2 most destructive cryptic species of the B.展开更多
基金The authors would like to thank Dr.Zhangjun Fei(Boyce Thompson Institute,USA)for computational support and comments on an earlier draft.This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD1400800)National Natural Science Foundation of China(32272534 and 32161143020)+5 种基金the Hainan Major Science and Technology Project(ZDKJ2021007)the Beijing Key Laboratory for Pest Control and Sustainable Cultivation of Vegetables and the Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS-ASTIP-IVFCAAS)The funders had no role in study design,data collection and analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript.Data Availability Statement This Whole Genome Shotgun project(Bemisia tabaci MED,Asial,Asialll,AsialI6,and AsialI7)has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under accession VMOE00000000,VMEI00000000,VMEH00000000,VMEG00000000,and VLTD00000000,respectively.Raw sequences including Illumina,PacBio,Hi-C,and RNA-seq reads have been deposited in the NCBI SRA)under accessions SRR11649531-SRR11649533(MED)SRR11692174-SRR11692176(Asial),SRR11613039-SRR11613041(AsiaII1)SRR11609251-SRR11609253(Asiall6)SRR11609258-SRR11609260(Asial7).The genome and predicted gene sequences of all available whitefly genomes are also available via the Whitefly Genome Database(WF-DB,http:/82.157.25.63/whitefly/homepage.php).
文摘Dear Editor,The characteristics and importance of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci as an economic pest seem to continually get more and more attention.Among the whiteflies B.tabaci including,at least 11 genetic groups and 36 morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species,invasive MEAMl(Middle East-Asia Minor 1,"B"type)and MED(the Mediterranean,"Q"type)are the 2 most destructive cryptic species of the B.