Nilaparvata lugens (Brown planthopper, BPH) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Nilaparvata lugens

The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens is a planthopper species that feeds on rice plants. These insects are among the most important pests of rice, which is the major staple crop for about half the world's population. They damage rice directly through feeding and also by transmitting two viruses, rice ragged stunt virus and rice grassy stunt virus. Up to 60% yield loss is common in susceptible rice cultivars attacked by the insect.

The BPH is distributed throughout Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, North and South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Their alternative host plant other than rice is Leersia hexandra.

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Taxonomy ID 108931

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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_014356525.1].

The total length of the assembly is 1087825591 bp contained within 7094 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 77631935, the scaffold L50 value is 6. Assembly gaps span 452900 bp.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_014356525.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v101. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.