Ecological adaption analysis of the cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii) in different phenotypes by transcriptome comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, is a destructive insect pest worldwide; it directly or indirectly damages (virus transmission) 300 species of host plants. Knowledge of their ecologically adaptive mechanisms at the molecular level may provide an essential and urgent method to effectively control this pest. However, no transcriptome information is available for the cotton aphid and sequence data are scarce. Therefore, we obtained transcriptome data.

Results

To facilitate such a study, two cotton aphid transcriptomes at different growth stages of cotton, seedling and summer, were sequenced. A total of 161,396 and 66,668 contigs were obtained and assembled into 83,671 and 42,438 transcripts, respectively. After combining the raw date for both transcriptomes,

SUBMITTER: Li ZQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3871566 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature