Population genomics and phylogeography of the boll weevil, Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in the United States, northern Mexico, and Argentina.

The boll weevil, Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is an important pest of commercial cotton across the Americas. In the United States, eradication of this species is complicated by re-infestations of areas where eradication has been previously successful and by the existence of morphologically similar variants that can confound identification efforts. To date, no study has applied a high-throughput sequencing approach to better understand the population genetic structure of the boll weevil.