Amblyomma americanum Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Amblyomma americanum

Amblyomma americanum, also known as the lone star tick, the northeastern water tick, or the turkey tick, is a type of tick indigenous to much of the eastern United States and Mexico, that bites painlessly and commonly goes unnoticed, remaining attached to its host for as long as seven days until it is fully engorged with blood. It is a member of the phylum Arthropoda, class Arachnida. The adult lone star tick is sexually dimorphic, named for a silvery-white, star-shaped spot or "lone star" present near the center of the posterior portion of the adult female shield (scutum); adult males conversely have varied white streaks or spots around the margins of their shields.

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_030143305.2].

The total length of the assembly is 2543203428 bp contained within 36881 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 116009, the scaffold L50 value is 6011. The GC% content of the assembly is 47.0%.

Annotation

Metazoa displaying genes imported from GenBank entry linked to the assembly with accession GCA_030143305.2.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "Arcadia Science".

Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Metazoa.