Folsomia candida (Springtail, str. VU population) Assembly and Gene Annotation

Despite the great ecological relevance of the soil community, insight into molecular processes underlying the ecology and evolution of soil invertebrates is largely unknown. Folsomia candida is an accepted international standard for soil quality assessment. An internationally standardized soil toxicity test has been developed for this species and further details can be obtained from the genome portal (www.collembolomics.nl) at the Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_002217175.1].

The total length of the assembly is 221702752 bp contained within 162 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 6519406 the scaffold L50 value is 12. Assembly gaps span 250656 bp.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.