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SUBMITTER: Sharko FS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6927652 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sharko Fedor S FS Nedoluzhko Artem V AV Lê Brandon M BM Tsygankova Svetlana V SV Boulygina Eugenia S ES Rastorguev Sergey M SM Sokolov Alexey S AS Rodriguez Fernando F Mazur Alexander M AM Polilov Alexey A AA Benton Richard R Evgen'ev Michael B MB Arkhipova Irina R IR Prokhortchouk Egor B EB Skryabin Konstantin G KG
PloS one 20191223 12
Body size reduction, also known as miniaturization, is an important evolutionary process that affects a number of physiological and phenotypic traits and helps animals conquer new ecological niches. However, this process is poorly understood at the molecular level. Here, we report genomic and transcriptomic features of arguably the smallest known insect-the parasitoid wasp, Megaphragma amalphitanum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). In contrast to expectations, we find that the genome and transcr ...[more]