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SUBMITTER: Blumenfeld AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7881189 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blumenfeld Alexander J AJ Eyer Pierre-André PA Husseneder Claudia C Mo Jianchu J Johnson Laura N L LNL Wang Changlu C Kenneth Grace J J Chouvenc Thomas T Wang Shichen S Vargo Edward L EL
Communications biology 20210212 1
Native to eastern Asia, the Formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus (Shiraki) is recognized as one of the 100 worst invasive pests in the world, with established populations in Japan, Hawaii and the southeastern United States. Despite its importance, the native source(s) of C. formosanus introductions and their invasive pathway out of Asia remain elusive. Using ~22,000 SNPs, we retraced the invasion history of this species through approximate Bayesian computation and assessed the co ...[more]