Euschistus heros isolate:2730 Genome sequencing and assembly

The neotropical brown stink bug, Euschistus heros, is a major pest of soybean and vegetable crops in South America and causes severe damage to cotton and maize via plant wilt and abortion of fruits and seeds. Research on these species has been hampered by an almost complete lack of genomic or transcriptomic resources. We have received a Newton Fund grant (BB/R022623/1) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) of the UK and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under the BBSRC-FAPESP Joint Pump-Priming Awards for AMR and Insect Pest Resistance in Livestock and Agriculture to sequence the draft genome of E. heros. Sequencing was performed using a hybrid short-read (Illumina) and long-read (PacBio) approach and raw and assembled data is deposited here pre-publication in a peer-reviewed journal.