Drosophila santomea (Fruit fly, STO CAGO 1482) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Drosophila santomea

Drosophila santomea is the first melanogaster sibling found off West-equatorial Africa, on Sao Tome, one of the Gulf of Guinea islands [1]. D. santomea is the first insular melanogaster sibling found in the eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean and the first insular endemic not belonging to the simulans clade [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.

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Taxonomy ID 129105

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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_016746245.2].

The total length of the assembly is 146800522 bp contained within 104 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 25621868, the scaffold L50 value is 3. The GC% content of the assembly is 42.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_016746245.2.

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. Lachaise et al.. Evolutionary novelties in islands: Drosophila santomea, a new melanogaster sister species from São Tomé. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 267, 1452. 2000. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1169