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Genomics and Biotechnology in Insects of Agricultural and Medical Importance
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Genomics and Biotechnology in Insects of Agricultural and Medical Importance

A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 2096

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lin Jin

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Guest Editor
College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: insect physiology; biochemistry; molecular biology; genomics; molecular toxicology; insect behavior
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Dr. Xiaoli Bing

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Guest Editor
College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: microbe-host interaction; symbiosis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Food shortages caused by pests and the spread of human diseases carried and transmitted by insects still present urgent problems worldwide. In the process of long-term evolution, insects have formed a complex ability to adapt to their host, which is reflected in the insect genome and mediates the stable and recurrent damage to crops and human. In recent decades, with advances in high-throughput sequencing technology and the further reduction in its cost, the genomes of many important agricultural and medical insects have been revealed, and detailed bioinformatics information has been analyzed. However, the mechanism underlying insects’ adaptability to their hosts and population prosperity is still not fully understood. Furthermore, due to the lack of such information, biotechnology, including pest control and natural enemy utilization, is also difficult to design and effectively carry out.

This Special Issue welcomes recent discoveries regarding genomics and biotechnology in characterizing insects of agricultural and medical importance.

Dr. Lin Jin
Dr. Xiaoli Bing
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Insects is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • agricultural and medical insects
  • insect genomics
  • functional genomics
  • gene functional analysis
  • pest control biotechnology

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Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of Papilio elwesi Leech, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
by Zhixiang Pan, Yinhuan Ding, Shusheng Zhang, Luxian Li and Fangzhou Ma
Insects 2023, 14(3), 304; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14030304 - 21 Mar 2023
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A rarely seen butterfly species, the large swallowtail butterfly Papilio elwesi Leech, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), endemic to the Chinese mainland, has been declared a state-protected animal in China since 2000, but its genome is not yet available. To obtain high-quality genome assembly and [...] Read more.
A rarely seen butterfly species, the large swallowtail butterfly Papilio elwesi Leech, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), endemic to the Chinese mainland, has been declared a state-protected animal in China since 2000, but its genome is not yet available. To obtain high-quality genome assembly and annotation, we sequenced the genome and transcriptome of P. elwesi using the PacBio and PromethION platforms, respectively. The final assembled genome was 358.51 Mb, of which 97.59% was anchored to chromosomes (30 autosomes and 1 Z sex chromosome), with a contig/scaffold N50 length of 6.79/12.32 Mb and 99.0% (n = 1367) BUSCO completeness. The genome annotation pointed to 36.82% (131.99 Mb) repetitive elements and 1296 non-coding RNAs in the genome, along with 13,681 protein-coding genes that cover 98.6% (1348) of the BUSCO genes. Among the 11,499 identified gene families, 104 underwent significantly rapid expansions or contractions, and these rapidly expanding families play roles in detoxification and metabolism. Additionally, strong synteny exists between the chromosomes of P. elwesi and P. machaon. The chromosome-level genome of P. elwesi could serve as an important genomic resource for furthering our understanding of butterfly evolution and for more in-depth genomic analyses. Full article
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