Oppia nitens (Oribatid soil mite, AA-2021) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Oppia nitens

Oribatida (formerly Cryptostigmata), also known as oribatid mites, moss mites or beetle mites,[1] are an order of mites, in the "chewing Acariformes" clade Sarcoptiformes. They range in size from 0.2 to 1.4 millimetres (0.008 to 0.055 in) [1]. There are currently 12,000 species that have been identified, but researchers estimate that there may be anywhere from 60,000 to 120,000 total species [2]. Oribatid mites are by far the most prevalent of all arthropods in forest soils, and are essential for breaking down organic detritus and distributing fungi [3]. The Oribatida are of economic importance as hosts of various tapeworm species, and by increasing the breakdown of organic material in the soil, in a similar manner to earthworms.[4]

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Taxonomy ID 1686743

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More information General information about the order this species belongs can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_028296485.1].

The total length of the assembly is 126096124 bp contained within 65 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 4409514, the scaffold L50 value is 7. Assembly gaps span 662515 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 24.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_028296485.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release version is not defined for GCA_028296485.1 assembly. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. Marjorie A. Hoy (2008). "Soil mites". In John L. Capinera (ed.). Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Springer. pp. 3463–3466. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
2. Schatz, Heinrich; Behan-Pelletier, Valerie (2008), Global diversity of oribatids (Oribatida: Acari: Arachnida), Developments in Hydrobiology, vol. 198, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 323–328, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_35
3. Subías, Luis S. (2004-12-31). "Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002)". Graellsia. 60 (Extra): 3–305.
4. Edward W. Baker & G. W. Wharton (1952). "Oribatei Dugès, 1833". An Introduction to Acarology. New York: Macmillan. pp. 387–438.