Bicyclus anynana (Squinting bush brown) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Bicyclus anynana

Bicyclus anynana is a small brown butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, the most globally diverse family of butterflies. It is primarily found in eastern Africa from southern Sudan to Eswatini. It is found mostly in woodland areas and flies close to the ground. Male wingspans are 35–40 mm and female wingspans are 45–49 mm.

Originally the bush brown was collected to study evolutionary and ecological genetics. This research is now primarily used to see how the environment shapes the phenotypic evolution of the butterfly.

Picture credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (Image source) Taxonomy ID 110368

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_900239965.1].

The total length of the assembly is 475399557 bp contained within 10800 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 638282, the scaffold L50 value is 194. Assembly gaps span 5814195 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 36.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_900239965.1.

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. The African butterfly Bicyclus anynana: a model for evolutionary genetics and evolutionary developmental biology.
   Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2009.5 (2009): pdb-emo122.