American students sequenced the genome of a new soybean pest

Usually, the cost of genome sequencing is measured in millions of dollars, so not all pests are studied so thoroughly. However, controlling the soybean weevil turned out to be very difficult, and in order to find new methods of controlling the pest, it was necessary to study it better. This task was completed by students of the University of Minnesota, spending 1 semester of time. They found about 200,000 nucleotide bases in the soybean weevil genome, which is less than 10% ...