Putting hornets on the genomic map

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• dc.contributor.author Favreau, Emeline
• dc.contributor.author Cini, Alessandro
• dc.contributor.author Taylor, Daisy
• dc.contributor.author Câmara Ferreira, Francisco
• dc.contributor.author Bentley, Michael A.
• dc.contributor.author Cappa, Federico
• dc.contributor.author Cervo, Rita
• dc.contributor.author Privman, Eyal
• dc.contributor.author Schneider, Jadesada
• dc.contributor.author Thiéry, Denis
• dc.contributor.author Mashoodh, Rahia
• dc.contributor.author Wyatt, Christopher Douglas Robert, 1988-
• dc.contributor.author Brown, Robert L.
• dc.contributor.author Bodrug-Schepers, Alexandrina
• dc.contributor.author Stralis-Pavese, Nancy
• dc.contributor.author Dohm, Juliane C.
• dc.contributor.author Mead, Daniel
• dc.contributor.author Himmelbauer, Heinz
• dc.contributor.author Guigó Serra, Roderic
• dc.contributor.author Sumner, Seirian
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-06T06:09:46Z
• dc.date.available 2023-06-06T06:09:46Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract Hornets are the largest of the social wasps, and are important regulators of insect populations in their native ranges. Hornets are also very successful as invasive species, with often devastating economic, ecological and societal effects. Understanding why these wasps are such successful invaders is critical to managing future introductions and minimising impact on native biodiversity. Critical to the management toolkit is a comprehensive genomic resource for these insects. Here we provide the annotated genomes for two hornets, Vespa crabro and Vespa velutina. We compare their genomes with those of other social Hymenoptera, including the northern giant hornet Vespa mandarinia. The three hornet genomes show evidence of selection pressure on genes associated with reproduction, which might facilitate the transition into invasive ranges. Vespa crabro has experienced positive selection on the highest number of genes, including those putatively associated with molecular binding and olfactory systems. Caste-specific brain transcriptomic analysis also revealed 133 differentially expressed genes, some of which are associated with olfactory functions. This report provides a spring-board for advancing our understanding of the evolution and ecology of hornets, and opens up opportunities for using molecular methods in the future management of both native and invasive populations of these over-looked insects.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was funded by Grants from the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council awarded to S.S. (NE/M012913/2; NE/S011218/1), a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Individual fellowship awarded to A.C. (706208-SocParPhenoEvo); F.C.F. and R.G. were supported by the Plataforma de Recursos Biomoleculares y Bioinformáticos PT 13/0001/0021 from ISCIII, a platform co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to the EMBL partnership, the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa and the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. J.S. was supported by UCL’s Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (Harold and Olga Fox Fund). This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust Grants 206194 and 218328. We thank our colleagues in the Sanger Institute’s Scientific Operations, Genome Assembly and Genome Reference Informatics teams for extraction, sequencing, assembly and curation and the Director’s Office for support.
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• dc.identifier.citation Favreau E, Cini A, Taylor D, Câmara Ferreira F, Bentley MA, Cappa F, Cervo R, Privman E, Schneider J, Thiéry D, Mashoodh R, Wyatt CDR, Brown RL, Bodrug-Schepers A, Stralis-Pavese N, Dohm JC, Mead D, Himmelbauer H, Guigo R, Sumner S. Putting hornets on the genomic map. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 21;13(1):6232. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31932-x
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31932-x
• dc.identifier.issn 2045-2322
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57050
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Nature Research
• dc.relation.ispartof Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 21;13(1):6232
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• dc.subject.keyword Ecology
• dc.subject.keyword Molecular biology
• dc.title Putting hornets on the genomic map
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