Belgica antarctica (Antarctic midge) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Belgica antarctica

Belgica antarctica, the Antarctic midge, is a species of flightless midge, endemic to the continent of Antarctica. At 2--6 mm (0.079--0.236 in) long, it is the largest purely terrestrial animal on the continent, as well as its only insect. It also has the smallest known insect genome as of 2014, with only 99 million base pairs of nucleotides (and about 13,500 genes) [1].

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the ASM77530v1 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000775305.1.

Annotation

Genes were annotated using MAKER [1]. Protein features and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. Compact genome of the Antarctic midge is likely an adaptation to an extreme environment.
   Kelley JL, Peyton JT, Fiston-Lavier AS, Teets NM, Yee MC, Johnston JS, Bustamante CD, Lee RE, Denlinger DL. 2014. Nature Communications. 5:4611.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.