Publications by authors named "Pablo Benavides-Machado"
Mol Genet Genomics
June 2017
Article Synopsis
- The coffee berry borer (CBB) is a major pest impacting global coffee production, and its genome has recently been sequenced, revealing information on transposable elements (TEs) for the first time.
- A newly created library identified 880 TEs, with 66% being Class I (LTRs and non-LTRs) and 34% Class II (various DNA transposons), including newly proposed families like Hypo, Hamp, and rosa.
- Although TEs make up about 8.2% of the CBB genome, the majority are degenerate, with MITEs representing about 50% of TEs, indicating a high diversity but low presence of full-length copies.
