Agrilus planipennis (Emerald ash borer, EAB-ADULT) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Agrilus planipennis

The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), also known by the acronym EAB, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species. Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in one to two years. In its native range, it is typically found at low densities and does not cause significant damage to trees native to the area. Outside its native range, it is an invasive species and is highly destructive to ash trees native to Europe and North America. Before it was found in North America, very little was known about emerald ash borer in its native range; this has resulted in much of the research on its biology being focused in North America. Local governments in North America are attempting to control it by monitoring its spread, diversifying tree species, insecticides, and biological control.

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Taxonomy ID 224129

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_000699045.2].

The total length of the assembly is 353072773 bp contained within 3613 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 1113421, the scaffold L50 value is 91. Assembly gaps span 37456966 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 34.5%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v101. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.