Varroa destructor (Honeybee mite) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Varroa destructor

Varroa destructor (Varroa mite) is an external parasitic mite that attacks and feeds on the honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. The Varroa mite is the parasite with possibly the most pronounced economic impact on the beekeeping industry. [1]

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Assembly

The Varroa destructor genome was sequenced and assembled by the Ecology and Evolution Unit from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology [2].

The Vdes_3.0 assembly was imported from GenBank.

Annotation

The annotations in Ensembl Metazoa is the NCBI Varroa destructor Annotation Release 100 .

References

1. Varroa_destructor. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. (accessed October 9, 2020)

2. Divergent evolutionary trajectories following speciation in two ectoparasitic honey bee mites. Techer MA, Rane RV, Grau ML, Roberts JMK, Sullivan ST, Liachko I, Childers AK, Evans JD, Mikheyev AS. Commun Biol. 2019 Oct 1;2:357. doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0606-0.

Picture credit (public domain): Kika De La Garza (Wikipedia)