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Transcriptomics of the Bed Bug (Cimex lectularius)

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Title
Transcriptomics of the Bed Bug (Cimex lectularius)
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PLOS ONE, January 2011
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0016336
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Xiaodong Bai, Praveen Mamidala, Swapna P. Rajarapu, Susan C. Jones, Omprakash Mittapalli

Abstract

Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are blood-feeding insects poised to become one of the major pests in households throughout the United States. Resistance of C. lectularius to insecticides/pesticides is one factor thought to be involved in its sudden resurgence. Despite its high-impact status, scant knowledge exists at the genomic level for C. lectularius. Hence, we subjected the C. lectularius transcriptome to 454 pyrosequencing in order to identify potential genes involved in pesticide resistance.

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Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Other 3 2%
Unknown 182 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 22%
Researcher 41 21%
Student > Master 21 11%
Student > Bachelor 16 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 7%
Other 35 18%
Unknown 27 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 113 58%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 21 11%
Environmental Science 10 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 2%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 34 17%