A conserved motif within cox 2 allows broad detection of economically important fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).

ABSTRACT: The genera Anastrepha, Bactrocera, Ceratitis, Dacus and Rhagoletis in the family Tephritidae order Diptera are economically important, worldwide distributed and cause damage to a large number of commercially produced fruits and vegetables. China had regulated these five genera as quarantine pests, including the species Carpomya vesuviana. An accurate molecular method not depending on morphology able to detect all the quarantine fruit flies simultaneously is required for quarantine monitoring. This study contributes a comparative analysis of 146 mitochondrial genomes of Diptera species and found variable sites at the mt DNA cox2 gene only conserved in economically important fruit flies species. Degenerate primers (TephFdeg/TephR) were designed specific for the economically important fruit f

SUBMITTER: Jiang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794786 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature