Transcriptome-wide responses of adult melon thrips (Thrips palmi) associated with capsicum chlorosis virus infection.

ABSTRACT: Thrips palmi is a widely distributed major agricultural pest in the tropics and subtropics, causing significant losses in cucurbit and solanaceous crops through feeding damage and transmission of tospoviruses. Thrips palmi is a vector of capsicum chlorosis virus (CaCV) in Australia. The present understanding of transmission biology and potential effects of CaCV on T. palmi is limited. To gain insights into molecular responses to CaCV infection, we performed RNA-Seq to identify thrips transcripts that are differentially-abundant during virus infection of adults. De-novo assembly of the transcriptome generated from whole bodies of T. palmi adults generated 166,445 contigs, of which ~24% contained a predicted open reading frame. We identified 1,389 differentially-expressed (DE) transcripts, w

SUBMITTER: Widana Gamage SMK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286046 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature