A clonally reproducing generalist aphid pest colonises diverse host plants by rapid transcriptional plasticity of duplicated gene clusters
Thomas C Mathers, Yazhou Chen, Gemy Kaithakottil, Fabrice Legeai, Sam T Mugford, Patrice Baa-Puyoulet, Anthony Bretaudeau, Bernardo Clavijo, Stefano Colella, Olivier Collin, Tamas Dalmay, Thomas Derrien, Honglin Feng, Toni Gabaldón, Anna Jordan, , Saskia A Hogenhout
This study shows that the green peach aphid uses rapid transcriptional changes of duplicated genes to colonize diverse host plants without genetic specialization.
Genome Biology · Feb 13, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics