Anopheles gambiae (African malaria mosquito) - GCA_943734735.2 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Anopheles gambiae

The Anopheles gambiae complex consists of at least seven morphologically indistinguishable species of mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles. The complex was recognised in the 1960s and includes the most important vectors of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly of the most dangerous malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. It is one of the most efficient malaria vectors known. The An. gambiae mosquito additionally transmits Wuchereria bancrofti which causes lymphatic filariasis, a symptom of which is elephantiasis.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_943734735.2].

The total length of the assembly is 264451381 bp contained within 190 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 99149756, the scaffold L50 value is 2. The GC% content of the assembly is 44.5%.

Annotation

The VEuPathDB-2024-01-17 annotation presented is derived from NCBI RefSeq annotation release vGCF_943734735.2-RS_2023_12.html.

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