Haemaphysalis longicornis - (Longhorned tick) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Haemaphysalis longicornis

Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis),

longhorned tick, bush tick, Asian tick, or cattle tick, is a parasitic arachnid belonging to the tick family Ixodidae. The Asian longhorned tick is a known livestock pest, especially in New Zealand, and can transmit a disease called theileriosis to cattle but not to humans. However, the tick has been associated with several other tickborne diseases in humans.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_013339765.2].

The total length of the assembly is 2554731864 bp contained within 3885 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 204922340, the scaffold L50 value is 5. The GC% content of the assembly is 47.5%.

Annotation

Annotation of the GCA013339765v2 (BIME_HaeL_1.3) assembly was carried out by VEuPathDB VectorBase. The set of gene models presented (genebuild VEuPathDB-2022-11-01, released November 2022) combines manual annotation, data provided by the research community, and gene prediction using the Ensembl system.