Transcriptome sequencing and analysis of the coconut leaf beetle, Brontispa longissima
“Transcriptome sequencing and analysis of the coconut leaf beetle, Brontispa longissima”, vol. 14, pp. 8359-8365, 2015.
, The coconut leaf beetle, Brontispa longissima, is a destructive pest of palm plants. Although its ecological and biological characteristics are well understood, its genetic information remains largely unknown. To advance our understanding of its molecular basis of biology and ecology, we sequenced and analyzed its whole transcriptome by using high-throughput Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. Approximately 8.08 Gb of clean reads were generated in a single run, which were assembled by using Trinity into 41,652 unigenes with an average length of 932 bp.