Dermacentor silvarum (Tick, Dsil-2018) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Dermacentor silvarum

Dermacentor is a genus of ticks in the family Ixodidae, the hard ticks. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with native species on all continents except Australia. Most are found in North America.[2]

Hosts of Dermacentor ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, lagomorphs, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans [1].

Dermacentor species are vectors of many pathogens, including Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes the disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever, Anaplasma marginale, which causes anaplasmosis in cattle [1]. Dermacentor ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis [1].

Picture is of related species D. occidentalis.

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Taxonomy ID 543639

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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_013339745.2].

The total length of the assembly is 2474308340 bp contained within 1665 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 189477455, the scaffold L50 value is 5. Assembly gaps span 2285458 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 47.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_013339745.2.

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.

* References *

1. C. E. Yunker; J. E. Keirans; C. M. Clifford; E. R. Easton (1986). "Dermacentor ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) of the New World: a scanning electron microscope atlas" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 88 (4): 609–627. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-09-04.