Tracking the North American Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion With Genomics
Mingming Cui, Amanda D. Roe, Brian Boyle, Melody Keena, Yunke Wu, W. Evan Braswell, Michael T. Smith, Ben Gasman, Juan Shi, Marion Javal, Geraldine Roux, Jean J. Turgeon, Richard Hamelin, Ilga Porth · 2024
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Mingming Cui and co-authors used genomics, in a 2024 study, to trace how the Asian longhorned beetle invaded North America. The beetle bores into hardwoods and harms forests across the continent. Knowing where each outbreak came from helps border teams stop the next one.
The team read 2,768 gene markers in beetles from across the invaded range. Most outbreaks proved distinct, the fruit of many separate arrivals from the home range in Asia. After arrival, each group shrank through a tight bottleneck, then grew again. A few groups also spread to side outbreaks nearby. The work lays the base for a gene-based watch tool that can name the source of a caught beetle, guiding stronger biosecurity.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mingming Cui, Amanda D. Roe, Brian Boyle, Melody Keena, Yunke Wu, W. Evan Braswell, Michael T. Smith, Ben Gasman, Juan Shi, Marion Javal, Geraldine Roux, Jean J. Turgeon, Richard Hamelin, Ilga Porth |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |