About the Authors

Wee Tek Tay

Contributed equally to this work with: Wee Tek Tay, Miguel F. Soria

weetek.tay@csiro.au

Affiliation Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Miguel F. Soria

Contributed equally to this work with: Wee Tek Tay, Miguel F. Soria

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Instituto Mato-grossense do Algodão – IMAmt (Mato Grosso Cotton Institute), Primavera do Leste, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Thomas Walsh

Affiliation Sustainable Agricultural Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Danielle Thomazoni

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Instituto Mato-grossense do Algodão – IMAmt (Mato Grosso Cotton Institute), Primavera do Leste, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Pierre Silvie

Affiliations Unité Propre de Recherche Systèmes de culture annuels, CIRAD, Montpellier, France, Unité de Recherche 072, Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation, IRD, Orsay, France

Gajanan T. Behere

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Shilong, Meghalaya, India

Craig Anderson

Affiliation Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Sharon Downes

Affiliation Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFS SD TW WTT DT. Performed the experiments: WTT TW CA GTB. Analyzed the data: WTT TW CA GTB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFS DT PS WTT TW CA GTB. Wrote the paper: WTT MFS TW DT CA GTB SD.