Publications by authors named "Jasmine D Alqassar"
Lepidopteran silk glands include a posterior silk gland (PSG) that secretes core fibers and a middle silk gland (MSG) that secretes adhesive sericins. While well-studied in the silkworm (), little is known about the gene expression profiles underlying the diversity of lepidopteran silks. Here we characterized the silk gland from the pantry moth using a combination of quantitative and spatial assays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSynanthropic species live in close association with, or benefit from, humans. Despite their potential impacts to human health, little is known about the mechanisms driving synanthropic life-history evolution, evolutionary forces shaping diet among synanthropes, or how these combined factors affect population dynamics and/or speciation. The Tineidae moth family contains several synanthropic species, including the globally distributed pest species Tineola bissellellia, that contribute to the ~$1 billion worth of damage caused annually by keratinophagous synanthropes.
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- Tineola bisselliella, known as the webbing clothes moth, is a significant pest that damages clothing and textiles, and there is a lack of genomic resources for this and related species.
- The newly assembled genome consists of 30 pseudochromosomes and is highly contiguous, containing over 11,000 annotated genes, making it superior in quality compared to other Tineidae genomes.
- This genome will help researchers understand the evolution of moth karyotypes and explore the mechanisms behind the moth's ability to digest keratin.