A highly contiguous genome assembly of a major forest pest, the Eurasian spruce bark beetle Ips typographus
Daniel Powell, Ewald Groβe-Wilde, Paal Krokene, Amit Roy, Amrita Chakraborty, Christer Löfstedt, Heiko Vogel, Martin N. Andersson, Fredrik Schlyter
The paper presents a high-quality genome assembly of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle, revealing gene families related to plant cell wall degradation and providing resources for studying its evolutionary biology and pest control.
Communications Biology · Sep 9, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics