Sequencing, de novo assembly and annotation of a pink bollworm larval midgut transcriptome

Background: The pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is one of the world's most important pests of cotton. Insecticide sprays and transgenic cotton producing toxins of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are currently used to manage this pest. Bt to...

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Main Authors: Tassone, Erica E., Zastrow-Hayes, Gina, Mathis, John, Nelson, Mark E., Wu, Gusui, Flexner, J. Lindsey, Carrière, Yves, Tabashnik, Bruce E., Fabrick, Jeffrey A.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Entomol
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/618722
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/618722