The draft genome of Ditylenchus dipsaci

Benjamin Mimee; Etienne Lord; Pierre-Yves Véronneau; Rick Masonbrink; Qing Yu; Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

doi:10.21307/jofnem-2019-027

The draft genome of Ditylenchus dipsaci

J Nematol. 2019:51:1-3. doi: 10.21307/jofnem-2019-027.

Authors

Benjamin Mimee¹, Etienne Lord¹, Pierre-Yves Véronneau¹, Rick Masonbrink², Qing Yu³, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker⁴

Affiliations

¹ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development Centre , St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, J3B 3E6 QC , Canada.
² Iowa State University , Ames, IA.
³ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre , K1A 0C6 Ottawa, ON , Canada.
⁴ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge , Cambridge.

Abstract

Ditylenchus dipsaci is a devastating pest to many crops worldwide. We present the first genome sequence for this species, produced with PacBio sequencing and assembled with CANU.