Comprehensive sex- and tissue-specific transcriptome of the destructive invasive pest Tuta absoluta adults

The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) is a newly emerged invasive pests causing devastating loss on tomato production globally. Semiochemical-based management is a promising method for controlling this pest. However, there is little known about how T. absoluta recognizes the semiochemical compounds. In this study, we generated a comprehensive sex- and tissue-specific transcriptome data of T. absoluta adults, which is a perfect sequel to the recently released chromosome-level genome data. Several tissues that we selected are important for semiochemicals perceptions in insects. Thus, the differentially expressed genes among the different tissues and sexes lays a good foundation for the olfaction researches in T. absoluta . Taken together, this transcriptomic data not only contribute to the molecular investigations about olfactory perception of T. absoluta , but also provided important information to developing innovative controlling methods based on the olfaction process of T. absoulta .