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 larv...

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Main Authors: Lixing Qi, Qi Fang, Lei Zhao, Hao Xia, Yuxun Zhou, Junhua Xiao, Kai Li, Gongyin Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4948883?pdf=render