Foraging Small White Butterflies, Pieris rapae, Search Flowers Using Color Vision
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De Novo Assembly and Developmental Transcriptome Analysis of the Small White Butterfly Pieris rapae
The small white butterfly Pieris rapae is one of the most destructive pests of Brassicaceae. Yet little is understood about its genes involved in development. To facilitate research on P. rapae, we sequenced the transcriptome of P. rapae during six developmental stages, including the egg, three larval stages, the pupa, and the adult. In total, 240 million high-quality reads were obtained. De no...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2296-701X
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.650069