Genome-wide profiling of piRNAs in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci reveals cluster distribution and association with begomovirus transmission

• Md Shamimuzzaman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Md Shamimuzzaman, Daniel K. Hasegawa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable laboratory, Charleston, SC, United States of America

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• Daniel K. Hasegawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Md Shamimuzzaman, Daniel K. Hasegawa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable laboratory, Charleston, SC, United States of America

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• Wenbo Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Alvin M. Simmons,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable laboratory, Charleston, SC, United States of America

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• Zhangjun Fei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Kai-Shu Ling

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kai.ling@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable laboratory, Charleston, SC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6426-4692

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