Culex quinquefasciatus (Southern house mosquito, JHB) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Culex quinquefasciatus

Culex quinquefasciatus, commonly known as the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus), is a medium-sized mosquito found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is a vector of Wuchereria bancrofti, avian malaria, and arboviruses including St. Louis encephalitis virus, Western equine encephalitis virus, Zika virus and West Nile virus. It is taxonomically regarded as a member of the Culex pipiens species complex. Its genome was sequenced in 2010, and was shown to have 18,883 protein-coding genes.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_015732765.1].

The total length of the assembly is 573214445 bp contained within 56 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 201550677, 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_015732765.1.

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.