Structural and functional insights into the Diabrotica virgifera virgifera ATP-binding cassette transporter gene family

Background The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera , is a pervasive pest of maize in North America and Europe, which has adapted to current pest management strategies. In advance of an assembled and annotated D. v. virgifera genome, we developed transcriptomic resources to use in identifying candidate genes likely to be involved in the evolution of resistance, starting with members of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter...