In the last decade the genomes of several aphid species have been sequenced allowing a better understanding of their biology and evolution. Unfortunately, as frequently occurs with the next generation sequencing technologies, several aphid genomes consist in fragmented assemblies that contain thousands of genomic scaffolds of reduced length. In order to improve the quality of the published genomic data, several research groups are currently resequencing aphid DNA making possible to take the full advantage of genomics to face complex biological problems, such as aphid diversification. This review is aimed to discuss the current state of art in aphid genomics focusing in particular on the aspects that could improve our knowledge of their evolution.

在过去的十年中，已经对几种蚜虫物种的基因组进行了测序，以更好地了解其生物学和进化过程。不幸的是，在下一代测序技术中经常发生的情况是，一些蚜虫基因组由碎片组装而成，其中包含成千上万个长度减少的基因组支架。为了提高已发表基因组数据的质量，一些研究小组目前正在对蚜虫DNA进行重新测序，从而有可能充分利用基因组学来应对复杂的生物学问题，例如蚜虫多样化。这篇综述的目的是讨论蚜虫基因组学的最新技术，尤其侧重于可以改善我们对它们进化的认识的方面。