Bactrocera latifrons (Solanum fruit fly, USDA-ARS-PBARC rearing strain) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Bactrocera latifrons

The species B. latifrons, also referred to as the "Solanum fruit fly" is a native species of Asia with ranges extending across Pakistan, India, Sri lanka, China and Burma amongst other asian countries. B. latifrons are Fruit flies (Family: Tephritidae) which rank among the world's most serious pests of horticultural crops including fruits and vegetables (1). The pest species is known to infest fruits belonging to families Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae. The solanum fruit fly is a pest of quarantine importance and has the potential to permanently establish itself and compete and/or coexist with other native and previously introduced tephritid fruit fly species. First identified in Taiwan in 1912 (1), as of 2006 this pest has established itself as agrigultural pest in Africa (Tanzania) and Southern India, with potential to threaten agriculture in other parts of India (1,2).

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Taxonomy ID 174628

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_001853355.1].

The total length of the assembly is 462505359 bp contained within 3306 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 974427, the scaffold L50 value is 126. Assembly gaps span 30849052 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 36.0%.

Annotation

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

References

1. Akhila, M. U., and T. Jiji. "Record of solanum fruit fly, Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel)(Diptera: Tephritidae) infesting solanaceous vegetables in Kerala." Current Biotica 9.1 (2015): 78-81.
2. H.A. Mziray et al. "Spatial and temporal abundance of the solanum fruit fly, Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel), in Morogoro, Tanzania.". Crop Protection, Volume 29, Issue 5, (2010):454-461.