Genomes of the rice pest brown planthopper and its endosymbionts reveal complex complementary contributions for host adaptation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, the most destructive pest of rice, is a typical monophagous herbivore that feeds exclusively on rice sap, which migrates over long distances. Outbreaks of it have re-occurred approximately every three years in Asia. It has also been used as a model system for ecological studies and for developing effective pest management. To better understand how a monophagous sap-sucking arthropod herbivore has adapted to its exclusive host selection and to provide insights to improve pest control, we analyzed the genomes of the brown planthopper and its two endosymbionts.

Results

We describe the 1.14 gigabase planthopper draft genome and the genomes of two microbial endosymbionts that permit the planthopper to forage exclusively on ric

SUBMITTER: Xue J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4269174 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature