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Schistocerca gregaria
| Resource Type | Organism |
|---|---|
| Genus | Schistocerca |
| Species | gregaria |
| Common Name | Desert locust |
| Description | The Ag100Pest Initiative (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest) of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) secured funding for this genome project from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop genomic resources to study the desert locust. Locust specimens were collected in 2020 from swarms in Kenya and bred to produce offspring of known parentage by chemical ecologist Dr. Baldwyn Torto and his team with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, Kenya. Learn more background about the project, including how this massive genome was sequenced and assembled: https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2022/usda-ars-releases-genome-of-the-voracious-desert-locust/ Access information at the Ag Data Commons: https://data.nal.usda.gov/dataset/schistocerca-gregaria-genome-sequencing-principal-pseudohaplotype This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use. |
| Publication | Childers AK, Geib SM, Sim SB, Poelchau MF, Coates BS, Simmonds TJ, Scully ED, Smith TPL, Childers CP, Corpuz RL, Hackett K, Scheffler B. The USDA-ARS Ag100Pest Initiative: High-Quality Genome Assemblies for Agricultural Pest Arthropod Research.. Insects. 2021 Jul 09; 12(7). |
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| Image Credit | Schistocerca_gregaria_nymphs.jpg by Brandon Woo |