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SUBMITTER: Hotaling S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7563230 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hotaling Scott S Kelley Joanna L JL Frandsen Paul B PB
Insects 20200905 9
Aquatic insects comprise 10% of all insect diversity, can be found on every continent except Antarctica, and are key components of freshwater ecosystems. However, aquatic insect genome biology lags dramatically behind that of terrestrial insects. If genomic effort was spread evenly, one aquatic insect genome would be sequenced for every ~9 terrestrial insect genomes. Instead, ~24 terrestrial insect genomes have been sequenced for every aquatic insect genome. This discrepancy is even more dramati ...[more]