Drosophila gunungcola (Fruit fly, Sukarami) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Drosophila gunungcola

Drosophila gunungcola is one of the five described species in the elegans species subgroup under the D. melanogaster species group of Sophophora subgenus in Drosophila. Drosophila gunungcola exhibits reproductive activities on the fresh flowers of several plant species and is an emerging model to study the co-option of morphological and behavioral traits in male courtship display [1].

Drosophila is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit. They should not be confused with the Tephritidae, a related family, which are also called fruit flies; tephritids feed primarily on unripe or ripe fruit, with many species being regarded as destructive agricultural pests, especially the Mediterranean fruit fly.

Picture credit (related species D. pseudoobscura): Public domain via Wikimedia Commons (Image source)

Taxonomy ID 103775

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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_025200985.1].

The total length of the assembly is 189841955 bp contained within 351 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 3022255, the scaffold L50 value is 11. The GC% content of the assembly is 40.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_025200985.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release vGCF_025200985.1-RS_2023_01. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. Negi, Liao & Yeh. Long-read-based Genome Assembly of Drosophila gunungcola Reveals Fewer Chemosensory Genes in Flower-breeding Species, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2023, evad048, doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad048