{"id":636,"date":"2018-01-31T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/?p=636"},"modified":"2018-02-01T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:52:13","slug":"the-colorado-potato-beetle-genome-is-now-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/2018\/01\/31\/the-colorado-potato-beetle-genome-is-now-published\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colorado potato beetle genome published in Scientific Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45458\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/files\/2018\/01\/20160615_172918.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45458\" class=\"wp-image-45458 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Beetle-4-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Swarm of Colorado potato beetles\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Zach Cohen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Colorado potato beetle, <em>Leptinotarsa decemlineata<\/em>, genome paper has just been published in Scientific Reports. Sean Schoville, University of Wisconsin and I coordinated a group of 58 scientists from 33 institutions to manually annotate the genome.<\/p>\n<p>Although the beetle has been notorious for its ability to rapidly evolve to a range of different types of environmental conditions, climates, host plants and insecticides, we were surprised that we did not find that the beetle had more genes for detoxifying pesticides compared to other more innocuous beetle species.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-20154-1\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-20154-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Madison Press release<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Wp5763L7rC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/colorado-potato-beetle-genome-gives-insight-into-major-agricultural-pest\/\">Colorado potato beetle genome gives insight into major agricultural pest<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Colorado potato beetle genome gives insight into major agricultural pest&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/colorado-potato-beetle-genome-gives-insight-into-major-agricultural-pest\/embed\/#?secret=F8TjDx3WCd#?secret=Wp5763L7rC\" data-secret=\"Wp5763L7rC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UVM Communications Story<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~uvmpr\/?Page=news&amp;storyID=25516\">http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~uvmpr\/?Page=news&amp;storyID=25516<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science Daily Coverage<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/01\/180131090308.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/01\/180131090308.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, genome paper has just been published in Scientific Reports. Sean Schoville, University of Wisconsin and I coordinated a group of 58 scientists from 33 institutions to manually annotate the genome. Although the beetle has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/2018\/01\/31\/the-colorado-potato-beetle-genome-is-now-published\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"yfanslow","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/author\/yfanslow\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}