Culex quinquefasciatus (JHB) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Culex quinquefasciatus

Culex quinquefasciatus, the Southern House Mosquito, is the vector responsible for transmission of filariasis and a number of viruses including West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis.

Picture credit (public domain): James Gathany (CDC) 2001

Assembly

The assembly presented is the VPISU_Cqui_1.0_pri_paternal assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_015732765.1.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displays the genes from NCBI Culex quinquefasciatus Annotation Release 100. Small RNA features, protein features and cross-references have been annotated by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. Complete sequences of mitochondria genomes of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus and comparative analysis of mitochondrial DNA fragments inserted in the nuclear genomes. Behura, Susanta K et al. Insect biochemistry and molecular biology vol. 41,10 (2011): 770-7. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.05.006