1. Unique features of a global human ectoparasite identified through sequencing of the bed bug genome
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Fang Zhu, Warren Booth, Zach N. Adelman, Benjamin A. Hottel, Huyen Dinh, Sebastian Wernig, Ameya D. Gondhalekar, Han Lin, Donna M. Muzny, Reinhard Predel, Abderrahman Khila, Antonin J.J. Crumière, Hugh M. Robertson, Christopher P. Childers, Monica F. Poelchau, Peter Nagui Refki, Klaus Reinhardt, Frank Maiwald, Jay D. Evans, Shwetha C. Murali, Kim C. Worley, Sandra L. Lee, Jing-Jiang Zhou, Stephen Richards, Amanda Dolan, Markus Friedrich, Corinna Schorn, Edward L. Vargo, Emily C. Jennings, Robert M. Waterhouse, Elise M. Szuter, Jeffery W. Jones, Iris M. Vargas Jentzsch, Andrew J. Rosendale, Elizabeth J. Duncan, José M. C. Ribeiro, Shannon Dugan, Nicolai Peschel, Yi Han, David Armisén, Christian Derst, Subba Reddy Palli, David A. Wheeler, Kapil R. Raje, Paul R. Johnston, Maria Emilia Santos, Kristen A. Panfilio, Mark-Christoph Ott, Chaoyang Zhao, Matthew T. Weirauch, Chien-Yueh Lee, Jacob M. Hendershot, Hemant Gujar, Valentina Resnik, Panagiotis Ioannidis, David R. Nelson, Coby Schal, M. Mohan, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Joshua B. Benoit, Ralf Nauen, Omprakash Mittapalli, Pamela Menegazzi, Séverine Viala, Brittany F. Peterson, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Essia Sghaier, Richard W. Hagan, Michael E. Scharf, Christian Wegener, Daniel S.T. Hughes, Seung-Joon Ahn, J. Spencer Johnston, John H. Werren, Richard A. Gibbs, Wolfgang Blenau, Michelle A. E. Anderson, Jiaxin Qu, Hsu Chao, Jayendra Nath Shukla, Geoffrey M. Attardo, Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Waterhouse, Robert, Zdobnov, Evgeny, Entomology, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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0301 basic medicine ,Traumatic insemination ,Bedbugs ,Insecticides ,Gene Transfer ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Ectoparasitic Infestations ,Genome ,Insecticide Resistance ,Bed bug ,Phylogenomics ,ddc:576.5 ,Genetics ,Multidisciplinary ,Host-Parasite Interactions/genetics ,Bedbugs/genetics ,Biological sciences ,Cimex lectularius ,Sequence Analysis ,Biotechnology ,animal structures ,Gene Transfer, Horizontal ,Hematophagy ,Science ,Biology ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,DNA sequencing ,Horizontal ,Host-Parasite Interactions ,03 medical and health sciences ,ddc:570 ,parasitic diseases ,Insecticide Resistance/genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,Obligate ,Human Genome ,fungi ,Gene Transfer, Horizontal/genetics ,General Chemistry ,DNA ,Feeding Behavior ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,biology.organism_classification ,030104 developmental biology ,Good Health and Well Being ,Evolutionary biology - Abstract
The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, has re-established itself as a ubiquitous human ectoparasite throughout much of the world during the past two decades. This global resurgence is likely linked to increased international travel and commerce in addition to widespread insecticide resistance. Analyses of the C. lectularius sequenced genome (650 Mb) and 14,220 predicted protein-coding genes provide a comprehensive representation of genes that are linked to traumatic insemination, a reduced chemosensory repertoire of genes related to obligate hematophagy, host–symbiont interactions, and several mechanisms of insecticide resistance. In addition, we document the presence of multiple putative lateral gene transfer events. Genome sequencing and annotation establish a solid foundation for future research on mechanisms of insecticide resistance, human–bed bug and symbiont–bed bug associations, and unique features of bed bug biology that contribute to the unprecedented success of C. lectularius as a human ectoparasite., The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, is a ubiquitous human ectoparasite with global distribution. Here, the authors sequence the genome of the bed bug and identify reductions in chemosensory genes, expansion of genes associated with blood digestion and genes linked to pesticide resistance.
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- 2016