Dear Dr Vandepeer,<div><br></div><div>I am a professor of zoology at Wuhan University in China, I have been working on the evolution of sensory genes for years, please see the link below for more details. <a href="http://www.bio.whu.edu.cn/News_reads.asp?cid=174&amp;id=2039">http://www.bio.whu.edu.cn/News_reads.asp?cid=174&amp;id=2039</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a question for you. I noticed that you or your colleagues have annotated chemosensory genes in the spider mite, I am wondering how you annotated those putative chemosensory genes. Because I detected nothing when I used insect chemosenosry genes as query, which suggested those genes of the mite are too divergent to share any sequence similarity with those of insects. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Please let me know how you worked this out.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Huabin<br><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Huabin Zhao, Ph.D, Professor</div><div>Department of Zoology,<br>
Rm 6108, College of Life Sciences,<br>Wuhan University,<div>Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China<br>Office: (86)-27-68753526<br><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:huabinzhao@whu.edu.cn" target="_blank">huabinzhao@whu.edu.cn</a>; <a href="mailto:huabinzhao@gmail.com" target="_blank">huabinzhao@gmail.com</a></div>
<div><div>Profile: <a href="http://www.bio.whu.edu.cn/News_reads.asp?cid=174&amp;id=2039" target="_blank">http://www.bio.whu.edu.cn/News_reads.asp?cid=174&amp;id=2039</a></div></div></div></div>
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