Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle, Imidocloprid resistant) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Leptinotarsa decemlineata

The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, or the potato bug, is a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10mm long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. Native to the Rocky Mountains, it spread rapidly in potato crops across America and then Europe from 1859 onwards.

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Taxonomy ID 7539

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_000500325.1].

The total length of the assembly is 641992784 bp contained within 26908 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 139046, the scaffold L50 value is 1179. Assembly gaps span 8059720 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.5%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v100. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.