Analysis of a native whitefly transcriptome and its sequence divergence with two invasive whitefly species.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Genomic divergence between invasive and native species may provide insight into the molecular basis underlying specific characteristics that drive the invasion and displacement of closely related species. In this study, we sequenced the transcriptome of an indigenous species, Asia II 3, of the Bemisia tabaci complex and compared its genetic divergence with the transcriptomes of two invasive whiteflies species, Middle East Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1) and Mediterranean (MED), respectively.

Results

More than 16 million reads of 74 base pairs in length were obtained for the Asia II 3 species using the Illumina sequencing platform. These reads were assembled into 52,535 distinct sequences (mean size: 466 bp) and 16,596 sequences were annotated with an E-value above 10-5. Prot

SUBMITTER: Wang XW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3478168 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature