RNA-seq data of Elaeidobius kamerunicus from North Sumatera and Central Kalimantan in Indonesia

Abstract

Since introduced from West Africa at 40 years ago, Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is still the main pollinator agent of oil palm plantation in Indonesia until now. Unfortunately, the success rate of pollination in various regions in Indonesia is relatively different, for example in Sumatra and Kalimantan. The oil palm fruit set formed in Kalimantan tends to be lower than in Sumatra. Preliminary studies show that weevils from Kalimantan visit female flowers less than from Sumatra. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in regulating insect behavior, especially in their role as pollinating agents, are not yet clearly understood. Therefore, a transcriptomic study was carried out to obtain raw data to determine gene expression differences in studying the behavior of the same weevil from two different regions. Here, we present two data sets of RNA seq reads which are available in GenBank Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database with accession number of SRR21521626 and SRR21521625 for weevil from North Sumatra and Central Kalimantan respectively.

Keywords

• Elaeidobius kamerunicus
• Oil palm
• Pollinator
• RNA-seq
• Transcriptomic data