Danaus plexippus - (monarch butterfly, reference) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Danaus plexippus

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) or simply monarch is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown. It is among the most familiar of North American butterflies and an iconic pollinator, although it is not an especially effective pollinator of milkweeds. Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3.5–4.0 in). A Müllerian mimic, the viceroy butterfly, is similar in color and pattern, but is markedly smaller and has an extra black stripe across each hindwing.

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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_018135715.1].

The total length of the assembly is 245173502 bp contained within 66 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 8158176, the scaffold L50 value is 13. The GC% content of the assembly is 32.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_018135715.1.

Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release GCF_018135715.1-RS_2023_11. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by metazoa.