Analysis of Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) mitochondrial genomes in the context of a recent host range expansion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The false codling moth (FCM), Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick, 1913), is a significant pest of various important economic crops and is a EU quarantine pest. In the last decade the pest has been reported on Rosa spp. In this study we determined whether this shift occurred within specific FCM populations across seven eastern sub-Saharan countries or whether the species opportunistically switches to this novel host as it presents itself. To achieve this, we assessed the genetic diversity of complete mitogenomes of T. leucotreta specimens intercepted at import and analysed potential linkages with the geographical origin and host species.

Results

Genomic, geographical and host information were integrated into a T. leucotreta Nextstrain build which contains 95 complet

SUBMITTER: van de Vossenberg BTLH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10316639 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature