WaspBase: a genomic resource for the interactions among parasitic wasps, insect hosts and plants

• DOI: 10.1093/database/bay081
• Publication Date: 2018-07-14T12:01:25Z
• Authors: Longfei Chen; Kun Lang; Shoudong Bi; Jiapeng Luo; Feiling Liu; Xinhai Ye; Jiadan Xu; Kang He; Fei Li; Gongyin Ye; Xuexin Chen
• Keywords: Entomology

Insect pests reduce yield and cause economic losses, which are major problems in agriculture. Parasitic wasps the natural enemies of many agricultural thus have been widely used as biological control agents. Plants, phytophagous insects parasitic form a tritrophic food chain. Understanding interactions this system should be helpful for developing pest deciphering mechanisms parasitism. However, genomic resources not well organized. Here, we describe WaspBase, new database that contains 573 transcriptomes 35 genomes 12 wasps, 5 insect hosts 8 plants. In addition, identified long non-coding RNA, untranslated regions 25 studied gene families from genome transcriptome data these species. WaspBase provides conventional web services such Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, search download, together with several tools profile hidden Markov model, Multiple using Fast Fourier Transform, automated alignment trimming JBrowse. We also present collection active researchers field useful constructing scientific networks field.