Human‐Mediated Dispersal Drives Global Invasion of Halyomorpha halys: A COI Haplotype and Mantel Test Analysis
Xiaoyu Yan, Yu Chen, Dianyu Liu, Zhihan Su, Wenyan Xu, Yichen Wang, Chenxi Liu · 2026
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Xiaoyu Yan and co-authors trace the global invasion of the brown marmorated stink bug with gene data, in a study from 2026. The pest has spread across North America, Europe, and Asia in three decades, harming many crops. Knowing what drives its spread guides control.
The team joined 1,039 gene sequences from 15 countries, 119 of them new, and found 65 haplotypes. Native groups in China and Japan held high diversity and clear apart structure. Most invaded groups showed the thinned diversity of a founder event. Greece and Belgium stood out with high diversity, hinting at repeated arrivals. Tests found no link between gene distance and either map distance or climate gaps, which points to human carriage as the driver.
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| CREATOR | Xiaoyu Yan, Yu Chen, Dianyu Liu, Zhihan Su, Wenyan Xu, Yichen Wang, Chenxi Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |