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Draft Genome Assembly of the False Spider Mite Brevipalpus yothersi
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Edité par CCSD ; American Society for Microbiology -
This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank as BioProject number PRJNA490612 under the accession number QZCP00000000.. International audience. The false spider mite Brevipalpus yothersi infests a broad host plant range and has become one of the most economically important species within the genus Brevipalpus. This phytophagous mite inflicts damage by both feeding on plants and transmitting plant viruses. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of the false spider mite, which is also the first plant virus mite vector to be sequenced. The ∼72 Mb genome (sequenced at 42× coverage) encodes ∼16,000 predicted protein-coding genes.