title: Genome sequence of a rice pest, the white-backed planthopper (Sogatella furcifera).
abstract: Sogatella furcifera is an important phloem sap-sucking and plant virus-transmitting migratory insect of rice. Because of its high reproductive potential, dispersal capability and transmission of plant viral diseases, S. furcifera causes considerable damage to rice grain production and has great economical and agricultural impacts. Comprehensive studies into ecological aspects and virus-host interactions of S. furcifera have been limited because of the lack of a well-assembled genome sequence.
  
  
  
  A total of 241.3 Gb of raw reads from the whole genome of S. furcifera were generated by Illumina sequencing using different combinations of mate-pair and paired-end libraries from 17 insert libraries ranging between 180 bp and 40 kbp. The final genome assembly (0.72 Gb), with average N50 contig size of 70.7 kb and scaffold N50 of 1.18 Mb, covers 98.6 % of the estimated genome size of S. furcifera . Genome annotation, assisted by eight different developmental stages (embryos, 1 st -5 th instar nymphs, 5-day-old adults and 10-day-old adults), generated 21 254 protein-coding genes, which captured 99.59 % (247/248) of core CEGMA genes and 91.7 % (2453/2675) of BUSCO genes.
  
  
  
  We report the first assembled and annotated whole genome sequence and transcriptome of S. furcifera . The assembled draft genome of S. furcifera will be a valuable resource for ecological and virus-host interaction studies of this pest.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Xinlei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Zhaoxia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Liqin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China.
authors.forename: Guohui
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Dongyang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Wenjie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Ibukun A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Akinyemi
authors.affiliation: BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Huanming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.|Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.|Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Bio-X Interdisciplinary Sciences, 443 Huang-Shan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
authors.forename: Qingfa
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D049750:Genome, Insect; D006430:Hemiptera / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D008297:Male; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D059467:Transcriptome
keywords: Annotation; Assembly; Genomics; Sogatella furcifera genome