文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Song, Yan-Fei ¹ ; Yu, Li-Chen ³ ; Yang, Mao-Fa ² ; Ye, Shuai ² ; Yan, Bin ² ; Li, Li-Tao ³ ; Wu, Chen ⁵ ; Liu, Jian-Feng ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Guizhou Univ, State Key Lab Breeding Base Green Pesticide & Agr, Key Lab Green Pesticide & Agr Bioengineering, Minist Educ, Guiyang 550025, Peoples R China

2.Guizhou Univ, Sci Observing & Expt Stn Crop Pest Guiyang, Inst Entomol, Guizhou Prov Key Lab Agr Pest Management,Minist A, Guiyang 550025, Peoples R China

3.Hebei Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, Changli Inst Pomol, Changli 066600, Peoples R China

4.Guizhou Univ, Coll Tobacco Sci, Guiyang 550025, Peoples R China

5.New Zealand Inst Plant & Food Res Ltd, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

关键词： Pyemotes; genome annotation; protein; toxin

期刊名称：TOXINS （ 影响因子：5.075； 五年影响因子：5.305 ）

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年卷期： 2022 年 14 卷 8 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Pyemotes zhonghuajia Yu, Zhang & He (Prostigmata: Pyemotidae), discovered in China, has been demonstrated as a high-efficient natural enemy in controlling many agricultural and forestry pests. This mite injects toxins into the host (eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults), resulting in its paralyzation and then gets nourishment for reproductive development. These toxins have been approved to be mammal-safe, which have the potential to be used as biocontrol pesticides. Toxin proteins have been identified from many insects, especially those from the orders Scorpions and Araneae, some of which are now widely used as efficient biocontrol pesticides. However, toxin proteins in mites are not yet understood. In this study, we assembled the genome of P. zhonghuajia using PacBio technology and then identified toxin-related genes that are likely to be responsible for the paralytic process of P. zhonghuajia. The genome assembly has a size of 71.943 Mb, including 20 contigs with a N50 length of 21.248 Mb and a BUSCO completeness ratio of 90.6% (n = 1367). These contigs were subsequently assigned to three chromosomes. There were 11,183 protein coding genes annotated, which were assessed with 91.2% BUSCO completeness (n = 1066). Neurotoxin and dermonecrotic toxin gene families were significantly expanded within the genus of Pyemotes and they also formed several gene clusters on the chromosomes. Most of the genes from these two families and all of the three agatoxin genes were shown with higher expression in the one-day-old mites compared to the seven-day-pregnant mites, supporting that the one-day-old mites cause paralyzation and even death of the host. The identification of these toxin proteins may provide insights into how to improve the parasitism efficiency of this mite, and the purification of these proteins may be used to develop new biological pesticides.