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Improved draft reference genome for the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter ( <i>Homalodisca vitripennis</i> ), a vector for Pierce’s disease
2021-06-04
Abstract excerpt
Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), known as the glassy-winged sharpshooter, is a xylem feeding leafhopper and an important agricultural pest as a vector of Xylella fastidiosa, which causes Pierce’s disease in grapes and a variety of other scorch diseases. The current H. vitripennis reference genome from the Baylor College of Medicine’s i5k pilot project is a 1.4-Gb assembly with 110,000 scaffolds...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 49bcf268-6032-5aab-98e0-37c9737bfbb5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.04.447158
