Manduca sexta (Tobacco hornworm, Smith_Timp_Sample1) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Manduca sexta

Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the Americas. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum.Commonly known as the Carolina sphinx moth and the tobacco hawk moth (as adults) and the tobacco hornworm and the Goliath worm (as larvae), it is closely related to and often confused with the very similar tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata); the larvae of both feed on the foliage of various plants of the family Solanaceae. Tobacco hornworms are facultative specialists; the larvae can grow and develop on any host plants. However, the larvae prefer solanaceous plants, such as tobacco and tomato plants.

M. sexta has a short life cycle, lasting about 30 to 50 days. In most areas, M. sexta has about two generations per year M. sexta is a common model organism, especially in neurobiology, due to its easily accessible nervous system and short life cycle.

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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_014839805.1].

The total length of the assembly is 470036997 bp contained within 4057 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 14248853, the scaffold L50 value is 14. Assembly gaps span 1085000 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_014839805.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v102. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.