Vespa mandarinia (Asian giant hornet, Nanaimo) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Vespa mandarinia

The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), also known as the northern giant hornet, and the Japanese giant hornet, is the world's largest hornet. It is native to temperate and tropical East Asia, South Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and parts of the Russian Far East. It was also found in the Pacific Northwest of North America in late 2019 with a few more additional sightings in 2020, and nests found in 2021, prompting concern that it could become an invasive species, but in December 2024, it was announced that the hornets had been eradicated from the region as well as from the rest of the United States.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_014083535.1].

The total length of the assembly is 247710421 bp contained within 267 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 2778186, the scaffold L50 value is 26. The GC% content of the assembly is 30.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_014083535.1.

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.