Comparative molecular analyses of invasive fall armyworm in Togo reveal strong similarities to populations from the eastern United States and the Greater Antilles

• Rodney N. Nagoshi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rodney.nagoshi@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4881-4014

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• Djima Koffi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Africa Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Komi Agboka,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ecole Supérieure d'Agronomie, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Kodjo Agbeko Tounou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ecole Supérieure d'Agronomie, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Rahul Banerjee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robert L. Meagher

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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