Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme phenotypic plasticity. Here we present the 464 Mb draft genome assembly of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. This first published whole genome sequence of a basal hemimetabolous insect provides an outgroup to the multiple published genomes of holometabolous insects. Pea aphids are host-plant specialists, they can reproduce both sexually and asexually, and they have coevolved with an obligate bacterial symbiont. Here we highlight findings from whole genome analysis that may be related to these unusual biological features. These findings…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• IN
  Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA)
• IN
  Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: U54-HG003273
• CS
  Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• NH
  National Human Genome Research Institute

  Awards: U54-HG003273, HG003273
• UN
  U.S. National Library of Medicine