Genome assembly and methylome analysis of the white wax scale insect provides insight into sexual differentiation of metamorphosis in hexapod

November 2020

Hang Chen, Qin Lu, Xiaoming Chen, Xiaofei Ling, Pengfei Liu, Ni Liu, Weiwei Wang, Jinwen Zhang, Qian Qi, Weifeng Ding, Xin Zhang, Ying Feng, Yurong Zhang, Ming‐Shun Chen, Kirst King‐Jones

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