Francois Sabot

1 1São Paulo State University (Unesp), Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo 15054-000, Brazil; 2Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, CNRS, UMR5558, Villeurbanne 69100, France; 3Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA; 4DIADE, University of Montpellier, Cirad, IRD, 34394 Montpellier, France; 5Grup de Genòmica, Bioinformática i Biologia...

Abstract The increasing availability of genome sequences has highlighted the limitations of using a single reference genome to represent the diversity within a species. Pangenomes, encompassing the genomic information from multiple genomes, offer thus a more comprehensive representation of intraspecific diversity. However, pangenomes in form of graph often lack annotation information, which limits their utility for forward analyses.

Abstract Background The host shift in insects has been considered a key process with potential to collaborate with reproductive isolation and speciation. Both genomics and transcriptomics variation has been attributed to such process, in which gene families with functions for host location, acceptance and usage have been proposed to evolve.