Melanaphis sacchari (Sugarcane aphid, LSU) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Melanaphis sacchari

The sugarcane aphid,, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants. It is mostly found in Saccharum and Sorghum species. The species primarily reproduces via parthenogenesis, although sexual morphs have been discovered in China, Japan, and Mexico - in China the eggs overwinter in the host Miscanthus sacchariflorus.

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Taxonomy ID 742174

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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_002803265.2].

The total length of the assembly is 300271876 bp contained within 1347 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 3012626, the scaffold L50 value is 25. The GC% content of the assembly is 27.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_002803265.2.

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.