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SUBMITTER: Ferguson KB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534424 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferguson Kim B KB Kursch-Metz Tore T Verhulst Eveline C EC Pannebakker Bart A BA
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20201005 10
<i>Trichogramma brassicae</i> (Bezdenko) are egg parasitoids that are used throughout the world as biological control agents and in laboratories as model species. Despite this ubiquity, few genetic resources exist beyond COI, ITS2, and RAPD markers. Aided by a <i>Wolbachia</i> infection, a wild-caught strain from Germany was reared for low heterozygosity and sequenced in a hybrid <i>de novo</i> strategy, after which several assembling strategies were evaluated. The best assembly, derived from a ...[more]