Structural and functional insights into the Diabrotica virgifera virgifera ATP-binding cassette transporter gene family.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is a pervasive pest of maize in North America and Europe, which has adapted to current pest management strategies. In advance of an assembled and annotated D. v. virgifera genome, we developed transcriptomic resources to use in identifying candidate genes likely to be involved in the evolution of resistance, starting with members of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family.

Results

In this study, 65 putative D. v. virgifera ABC (DvvABC) transporters were identified within a combined transcriptome assembly generated from embryonic, larval, adult male, and adult female RNA-sequence libraries. Phylogenetic analysis placed the deduced amino-acid sequences of the DvvABC transporters into eight subfamil

SUBMITTER: Adedipe F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6882327 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature