Cataglyphis hispanica (Desert ant, Lineage 1) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Cataglyphis hispanica

Cataglyphis is a genus of ant, desert ants, in the subfamily Formicinae. Its most famous species is C. bicolor, the Sahara Desert ant, which runs on hot sand to find insects that died of heat exhaustion, and can, like other several other Cataglyphis species, sustain body temperatures up to 50°C.

Species of this genus are behaviourally, morphologically, and physiologically adapted to dry and hot habitats.

At least five different species of Cataglyphis occur in the Sahara Desert, which may be considered the center of distribution for this genus. Five species also occur in Israel. Some species reach into southern Russia, southern Spain, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, the European part of Turkey, and the Aral-Caspian area near Tijanchan.

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Taxonomy ID 1086592

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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_021464435.1].

The total length of the assembly is 206388925 bp contained within 453 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 7954289, the scaffold L50 value is 9. Assembly gaps span 196 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 34.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_021464435.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v100. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.