RESEARCH ARTICLE Array of Synthetic Oligonucleotides to Generate Unique Multi-Target Artificial Positive Controls and Molecular Probe-Based Discrimination of Liposcelis Species Mohammad Arif1,2¤, George Opit2*, Abigail Mendoza-Yerbafría1,2, Shefali Dobhal1,2, Zhihong Li3, Zuzana Kučerová4, Francisco M. Ochoa-Corona1,2* 1 National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, 127 Noble Research Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 74078, United States of America, 2 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 127 Noble Research Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, a11111 Oklahoma, 74078, United States of America, 3 Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road 2, Beijing, 100193, PR China, 4 Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, 161 06, Prague, 6, Czech Republic ¤ Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, 4024 Throckmorton Plant Science Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 66506, United States of America *
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[email protected] (FMOC) OPEN ACCESS Citation: Arif M, Opit G, Mendoza-Yerbafría A, Abstract Dobhal S, Li Z, Kučerová Z, et al. (2015) Array of Synthetic Oligonucleotides to Generate Unique Multi- Several species of the genus Liposcelis are common insect pests that cause serious qual- Target Artificial Positive Controls and Molecular itative and quantitative losses to various stored grains and processed grain products. Probe-Based Discrimination of Liposcelis Species. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129810. doi:10.1371/journal. They also can contaminate foods, transmit pathogenic microorganisms and cause aller- pone.0129810 gies in humans. The common occurrence of multi-species infestations and the fact that it Liposcelis Academic Editor: Baochuan Lin, Naval Research is difficult to identify and discriminate spp.