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Hessian Fly

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The Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) is the world’s most important insect pest of wheat. It also belongs to one of the largest families of the Diptera, the gall midges (Cecidomyiidae), which includes a number of other agriculturally important beneficial and pest species. The genetics of the Hessian fly is representative of the family. It has several interesting characteristics: highly adapted plant interactions that culminate in plant gall formation, genomic imprinting, post-zygotic sex determination, germline-limited chromosomes, and useful polytene chromosomes. These characteristics are described and progress toward the positional cloning of Avirulence genes in the insect’s genome is reviewed. This work has culminated in the development of an FPC-based physical map of the genome that is firmly anchored to the polytene chromosomes of the insect.

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  1. Department of Entomology, Purdue University, 901West State Street, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Jeffrey J. Stuart

  2. USDA-ARS, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 66502, Manhattan, KS, USA

    Ming-Shun Chen

  3. Department of Entomology, North Dakota University, 58105, Fargo, ND, USA

    Marion O. Harris

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Stuart, J., Chen, MS., Harris, M. (2008). Hessian Fly. In: Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods. Genome Mapping Genomics Animals, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73833-6_7

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