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Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Rapid host-plant adaptation in the herbivorous spider mite Tetranychus urticae occurs at low cost

Participants in the publication
Vitor C Sousa (Author)
Dep. Biologia Animal
cE3c
Flore Zélé (Author)
cE3c
Leonor R Rodrigues (Author)
Dep. Biologia Animal
Unidade de I&D e Inovação
cE3c
Diogo P Godinho (Author)
Dep. Biologia Animal
Unidade de I&D e Inovação
cE3c
Maud Charlery de la Masselière (Author)
cE3c
Sara Magalhães (Author)
Dep. Biologia Animal
cE3c

Summary
The herbivorous spider mite Tetranychus urticae is a generalist world crop pest. Early evidence for host races, its fully sequenced genome resolved to the chromosome level, and the development of other molecular tools in this species suggest that this arthropod can be a good model to address host plant adaptation and early stages of speciation. Here, we evaluate this possibility by reviewing recent studies of host-plant adaptation in T. urticae. We find that evidence for costs of adaptation are relatively scarce and that studies involving molecular-genetics and genomics are mostly disconnected from those with phenotypic tests. Still, with the ongoing development of genetic and genomic tools for this species, T. urticae is becoming an attractive model to understand the molecular basis of host-plant adaptation.


Institution
cE3c/FCUL

Where published
Current Opinion in Insect Science

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 2214-5745

Publisher
Elsevier BV



Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.08.006
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.08.006

Rankings
SCIMAGO Q1 (2019) - 2.135 - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
SCOPUS Q1 (2019) - 6.9 - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Web Of Science Q1 (2019) - 4.565 - ECOLOGY - SCIE

Keywords
host-plant adaptation

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