Ichneumon xanthorius (Ichneumon Wasp, reference) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About *Ichneumon xanthorius *

The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25,000 species currently described. However, this likely represents less than a quarter of their true richness as reliable estimates are lacking, along with much of the most basic knowledge about their ecology, distribution, and evolution. It is estimated that there are more species in this family than there are species of birds and mammals combined. Ichneumonid wasps, with very few exceptions, attack the immature stages of holometabolous insects and spiders, eventually killing their hosts. They thus fulfill an important role as regulators of insect populations, both in natural and semi-natural systems, making them promising agents for biological control.

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Taxonomy ID 2795680

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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_917499995.1].

The total length of the assembly is 314,990,913 bp contained withinin 151 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 20145675, the scaffold L50 value is 7. Assembly gaps span 88600 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 43.0%.

Annotation

Protein-coding genes are automatically annotated using Ensembl's genebuild pipeline.

All transcripts are based on mRNA and proteins in public scientific databases. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.