Authors
Michael G Branstetter, Anna K Childers, Diana Cox-Foster, Keith R Hopper, Karen M Kapheim, Amy L Toth, Kim C Worley
Publication date
2018/2/1
Source
Current opinion in insect science
Volume
25
Pages
65-75
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Hyper-diverse Hymenoptera order includes parasitic and social insects.
- Economically impactful for biological control and pollination.
- Though second most sequenced order, still only 15% of families represented.
- High quality genome assemblies are proposed for 150 Hymenopteran species.
- With additional comparative genomes and transcriptomes to increase data breadth.
Hymenoptera is the second-most sequenced arthropod order, with 52 publically archived genomes (71 with ants, reviewed elsewhere), however these genomes do not capture the breadth of this very diverse order (Figure 1, Table 1). These sequenced genomes represent only 15 of the 97 extant families. Although at least 55 other genomes are in progress in an additional 11 families (see Table 2), stinging wasps represent 35 (67%) of the available and 42 (76%) of the in progress genomes. A more comprehensive catalog of …
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