Lucilia sericata Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Lucilia sericata

The common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) is a blowfly found in most areas of the world and is the most well-known of the numerous green bottle fly species. Its body is 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) in length – slightly larger than a house fly – and has brilliant, metallic, blue-green or golden coloration with black markings. It has short, sparse, black bristles (setae) and three cross-grooves on the thorax. The wings are clear with light brown veins, and the legs and antennae are black. The larvae of the fly may be used for maggot therapy, are commonly used in forensic entomology, and can be the cause of myiasis in livestock and pets. The common green bottle fly emerges in the spring for mating.

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(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_015586225.1].

The total length of the assembly is 565289533 bp contained within 4370 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 296078, the scaffold L50 value is 500. The GC% content of the assembly is 31.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_015586225.1.

Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v100. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by metazoa.