Communications Biology (Jul 2021)

Global patterns in genomic diversity underpinning the evolution of insecticide resistance in the aphid crop pest Myzus persicae

  • Kumar Saurabh Singh,
  • Erick M. G. Cordeiro,
  • Bartlomiej J. Troczka,
  • Adam Pym,
  • Joanna Mackisack,
  • Thomas C. Mathers,
  • Ana Duarte,
  • Fabrice Legeai,
  • Stéphanie Robin,
  • Pablo Bielza,
  • Hannah J. Burrack,
  • Kamel Charaabi,
  • Ian Denholm,
  • Christian C. Figueroa,
  • Richard H. ffrench-Constant,
  • Georg Jander,
  • John T. Margaritopoulos,
  • Emanuele Mazzoni,
  • Ralf Nauen,
  • Claudio C. Ramírez,
  • Guangwei Ren,
  • Ilona Stepanyan,
  • Paul A. Umina,
  • Nina V. Voronova,
  • John Vontas,
  • Martin S. Williamson,
  • Alex C. C. Wilson,
  • Gao Xi-Wu,
  • Young-Nam Youn,
  • Christoph T. Zimmer,
  • Jean-Christophe Simon,
  • Alex Hayward,
  • Chris Bass

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02373-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Singh, Bass and colleagues generate new genomic resources for the aphid crop pest, Myzus persicae, comprising a chromosome-scale genome assembly and resequenced genomes of >100 globally sampled clonal lines. Using this dataset, they uncover both mechanisms underpinning the evolution of insecticide resistance and ecological factors that influence its emergence and spread.