Red milkweed beetle genome is published!!

Red Milkweed beetles and their milkweed hosts are a poster child of codiversification at the insect-plant interface.

We recently sequenced and assembled a reference genome for the common red milkweed longhorn beetle (Tetraopes tetraopthalmus). Check it out!

Check it out!

https://academic.oup.com/jhered/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jhered/esae049/7745656

Rich Adams
Rich Adams
Data Scientist | Assistant Professor of Agricultural Statistics

I am a broadly trained statistical geneticist and data scientist with research in statistical population genetics, mathematical & algorithmic phylogenomics, computational/functional genomics, and artificial intelligence-driven applications in genetics.