The redlegged earth mite draft genome provides new insights into pesticide resistance evolution and demography in its invasive Australian range.

ABSTRACT: Genomic data provide valuable insights into pest management issues such as resistance evolution, historical patterns of pest invasions and ongoing population dynamics. We assembled the first reference genome for the redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor (Tucker, 1925), to investigate adaptation to pesticide pressures and demography in its invasive Australian range using whole-genome pool-seq data from regionally distributed populations. Our reference genome comprises 132 autosomal contigs, with a total length of 48.90 Mb. We observed a large complex of ace genes, which has presumably evolved from a long history of organophosphate selection in H. destructor and may contribute towards organophosphate resistance through copy number variation, target-site mutations and structural variant

SUBMITTER: Thia JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107102 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature