William T. Brewer

The paper presents a new draft genome of Aulacorthum solani, correcting contamination in the existing genome and providing functional annotations for most predicted genes.

The paper investigates how bacteria influence the virulence of an aphid-specific fungus, showing that protective bacteria reduce fungal virulence and that fungi can acquire host-associated bacteria during infection.

The paper identifies an endogenous viral element in the potato aphid genome, showing that RNAseq can misidentify viruses due to homology with transcribed elements.