Encarsia formosa is a species of chalcidoid wasp and a well known parasitoid of greenhouse whitefly, one of the first to be used commercially for biological pest control, from the 1920s. Its use fell with commercial pesticides in the 1940s, but rose again from the 1970s.

Host Genome

Scaffold
Genome ID Level BUSCO Assessment
GCA_030522645.1 Scaffold
C:94.14%[S:93.12%,D:1.02%],F:3.73%,M:2.12%,n:1367

Related Symbionts

1 records

Symbiont records associated with Encarsia formosa

Classification Function Function Tags Reference
Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

Wolbachia's parthenogenesis-induction feminization factor (piff) gene modulates sex determination in Encarsia formosa by regulating doublesex (dsx) e…

Reproductive manipulation
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Metagenome Information

0 records

Metagenome sequencing data associated with Encarsia formosa

Run Platform Location Date BioProject

No metagenomes found

No metagenome records associated with this host species.

Amplicon Information

0 records

Amplicon sequencing data associated with Encarsia formosa

Run Classification Platform Location Environment

No amplicons found

No amplicon records associated with this host species.

Related Articles

1 records

Research articles related to Encarsia formosa

Title Authors Journal Year DOI
Li, C; Li, CQ; Chen, ZB ... Li, CY; Luan, JB
CURRENT BIOLOGY
2024
10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.035