Tribolium castaneum (Red flour beetle, GA2) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Tribolium castaneum

The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. The red flour beetle, and other closely related beetles like Gnatocerus cornutus, are a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological and food safety research.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_031307605.1].

The total length of the assembly is 241845558 bp contained within 148 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 20636470, the scaffold L50 value is 5. The GC% content of the assembly is 31.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_031307605.1.

Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release GCF_031307605.1-RS_2024_04. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by metazoa.