SPODOBASE : an EST database for the lepidopteran crop pest Spodoptera

Background: The Lepidoptera Spodoptera frugiperda is a pest which causes widespread economic damage on a variety of crop plants. It is also well known through its famous Sf9 cell line which is used for numerous heterologous protein productions. Species of the Spodoptera genus are used as model for pesticide resistance and to study virus host interactions. A genomic approach is now a critical step for further new developments in biology and pathology of these insects, and the results of ESTs sequencing efforts need to be structured into databases providing an integrated set of tools and informations. Description: The ESTs from five independent cDNA libraries, prepared from three different S. frugiperda tissues (hemocytes, midgut and fat body) and from the Sf9 cell line, are deposited in the database. These tissues were chosen because of their importance in biological processes such as immune response, development and plant/insect interaction. So far, the SPODOBASE contains 29,325 ESTs,...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Vincent Nègre, Thierry Hotelier, Anne-Nathalie Volkoff, Sylvie Gimenez, François Cousserans, Kazuei Mita, Xavier Sabau, Janick Rocher, Miguel López-Ferber, Emmanuelle d'Alençon, Pascaline Audant, Cécile Sabourault, Vincent Bidegainberry, Frédérique Hilliou, Philippe Fournier
• Keywords: BMCBI 2006, ESTs, Sf9 Cell Line, Spodoptera Frugiperda