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Comprehensive Transcriptome of the Maize Stalk Borer, Busseola fusca, from Multiple Tissue Types, Developmental Stages, and Parasitoid Wasp Exposures

Journal

GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 2554-2560

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa195

Keywords

agricultural pest; Lepidoptera; insect genomics

Funding

  1. Institute of Research for Development [Icipe-NSBB-B4405B]
  2. National Science Foundation [MCB-1150213]
  3. Reed College sabbatical fellowship program
  4. Fulbright Foundation

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Busseola fusca (Fuller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), the maize stalk borer, is a widespread crop pest in sub-Saharan Africa that has been the focus of biological research and intensive management strategies. Here, we present a comprehensive annotated transcriptome of B. fusca (originally collected in the Western Province of Kenya) based on ten pooled libraries including a wide array of developmental stages, tissue types, and exposures to parasitoid wasps. Parasitoid wasps have been used as a form of biocontrol to try and reduce crop losses with variable success, in part due to differential infectivities and immune responses among wasps and hosts. We identified a number of loci of interest for pest management, including genes potentially involved in chemoreception, immunity, and response to insecticides. The comprehensive sampling design used expands our current understanding of the transcriptome of this species and deepens the list of potential target genes for future crop loss mitigation, in addition to highlighting candidate loci for differential expression and functional genetic analyses in this important pest species.

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