Culex pipiens pallens (Northern house mosquito, TS) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Culex pipiens pallens

C. pipiens is a species of mosquito commonly referred to as the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito, as it is the most common mosquito to the northern regions of the US. They can be found in both urban and suburban temperate and tropical regions across the world.

C. pipiens diet typically consists of vertebrate blood, as they consume human blood, but prefer bird blood of species that are nearly linked to human interaction, such as doves and pigeons. Furthermore, at the end of the summer and the start of the fall season before it is time for them to overwinter, C. pipiens subsist on nectar and other sugary food sources in order to store fat.

C. pipiens can be found in both urban and sub-urban temperate and tropical regions across the world.[1] It is prevalent on most continents, including North and South America, Europe, and some areas of Asia and Northern Africa.

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Taxonomy ID 42434

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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_016801865.2].

The total length of the assembly is 566339288 bp contained within 289 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 186194774, the scaffold L50 value is 2. The GC% content of the assembly is 37.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_016801865.2.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release vGCF_016801865.2-RS_2022_12. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References 1. Farajollahi, Ary; Fonseca, Dina M.; Kramer, Laura D.; Kilpatrick, A. Marm (October 2011). '"Bird biting" mosquitoes and human disease: A review of the role of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes in epidemiology'. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 11 (7): 1577–1585. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2011.08.013. ISSN 1567-1348. PMC 3190018. PMID 21875691.