Lucilia sericata

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Transcriptome datasets for Lucilia sericata
Species Description No. sequences Last update
Lucilia sericata GenBank EST division (dbEST) 6565 2455686.55 May 2011

i5K Comments for Lucilia sericata
Flies from the Lucilia genus are important to: Forensics (forensic entomology), veterinary and medical entomology (myiasis), evolutionary biology (interesting paraphyly of mtDNA sequences when compared to L. cuprina that is not seen with nuclear sequences; some suggestions of hybridization between these species), agriculture (myiasis), medicine (it is the primary maggot therapy species), and ecology (decomposition ecology, ecology of ephemeral resource use, coexistence research). Flies in the family Calliphoridae also exhibit human associated phenotype evolution, unique sex determination mechanisms, caused USDA need to develop sterile male release (C. hominivorax) and exhibit numerous evolutionary adaptations (hairy maggots, parasitism of bird nests, predators of other blow fly larvae). This fly is the only FDA-approved medical device for wound debridement where no other therapy is working, including surgical debridement and antibiotics. The biochemistry behind its effectiveness as an agent to remove resistant bacteria, stimulate wound healing and immunomodulation of the human host is just beginning to be explored. A full genome would provide the foundation for future studies. George Peck
Aaron Tarone


Lucilia sericata
Lucilia sericata
Sheep blow fly
Taxonomic classification
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Genus: Lucilia
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 13632
EOL taxid: eol logo grey.png 757419
Databases
Information
Nomination: i5K initiative
Date: 2011/08/05


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