Hemipteran insects are devastating pests of crops due to their wide host range, rapid
reproduction, and ability to transmit numerous plant-infecting pathogens as vectors. While …

The RefSeq project at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) maintains
and curates a publicly available database of annotated genomic, transcript, and protein …

Next generation sequencing transformed the field of evolutionary biology and high
throughput sequencing platforms are routinely used in phylogenomic, population genomic …

Background Despite considerable effort, progress in spider molecular systematics has
lagged behind many other comparable arthropod groups, thereby hindering family-level …

Abstract Background The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, is a major
destructive insect pest due to its broad host range, which includes hundreds of fruits and …

We report an update of the Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD)(http://
HymenopteraGenome. org), a model organism database for insect species of the order …

A central challenge in investigating biological phenomena is the development of techniques
to modify genomic DNA with nucleotide precision that can be transmitted through the germ …

Metaseiulus occidentalis is an eyeless phytoseiid predatory mite employed for the biological
control of agricultural pests including spider mites. Despite appearances, these predator and …

RNAi technologies are more environmentally friendly, as the technology provides greater
specificity in pest targeting, while reducing the potential negative effects on ecosystems and …

RNA interference (RNAi) refers to the set of molecular processes found in eukaryotic
organisms in which small RNA molecules mediate the silencing or down-regulation of target …