The Molecular Evolution of Xenobiotic Metabolism and Resistance in Chelicerate Mites

• Published in: Annual review of entomology Vol. 61; p. 475
• Main Authors: Van Leeuwen, Thomas, Dermauw, Wannes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 11.03.2016
• Subjects: Adaptation, Biological; Animals; Biological Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Mites - genetics; Mites - metabolism; Xenobiotics - metabolism; gene family radiations; target site; mapping; Acari; bulked segregant analysis; adaptation; xenosensor; chemoreceptor

Chelicerate mites diverged from other arthropod lineages more than 400 million years ago and subsequently developed specific and remarkable xenobiotic adaptations. The study of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, for which a high-quality Sanger-sequenced genome was first available, rev...