Spider mite performance on different host plants, before and after tomato adaptation.

Performance was quantified as the total population sizes (including eggs and mobile stages) 10 days after the initial inoculation using 35 female mites. The T. urticae London mite strain and the following plant cultivars were used; bean: Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv ‘Prelude’, cucumber: Cucumis sativus L. cv ‘Tanja’, tomato: Solanum lycopersicum L. cv ‘Moneymaker’ and bell pepper: Capsicum annuum L. cv ‘California Wonder’

Spider mite performance on different host plants, before and after tomato adaptation.

Performance was quantified as the total population sizes (including eggs and mobile stages) 10 days after the initial inoculation using 35 female mites. The T. urticae London mite strain and the following plant cultivars were used; bean: Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv ‘Prelude’, cucumber: Cucumis sativus L. cv ‘Tanja’, tomato: Solanum lycopersicum L. cv ‘Moneymaker’ and bell pepper: Capsicum annuum L. cv ‘California Wonder’

Annotations of tomato genes

ITAG, Blast2GO and EC descriptions for tomato genes are included

Tomato foliar damage by spider mite feeding

Foliar damage was measured using chlorotic spots as described in Kant et al. (2004)

Annotations of T. urticae genes

BLAST2GO- and best-BLAST-hit-annotations are included. T. urticae gene IDs can be accessed at http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/orcae/overview/Tetu