Homalodisca vitripennis (Glassy winged sharpshooter, AUS2020) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Homalodisca vitripennis

The glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) is a large leafhopper, similar to other species of sharpshooter.They have piercing, sucking mouthparts and rows of fine spines on their hind legs.

It is native to North America (northeastern Mexico), but it was accidentally introduced into Southern California in the early 1990s, probably with ornamental or agricultural stock. There it has become an agricultural pest especially to viticulture.

The glassy-winged sharpshooter feeds on a wide variety of plants. Scientists estimate the host plants for this sharpshooter include over 70 different plant species. Among the hosts are grapes, citrus trees, almonds, stone fruit, and oleanders. Because of the large number of hosts, glassy-winged sharpshooter populations are able to flourish in both agricultural and urban areas. They feed on a plant by inserting their needle-like mouth parts into the plant's xylem.

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Taxonomy ID 197043

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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_021130785.1].

The total length of the assembly is 2305003542 bp contained within 14904 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 168834166, the scaffold L50 value is 6. Assembly gaps span 0 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 33.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_021130785.1.

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.