Orchesella cincta (Springtail) Assembly and Gene Annotation

Despite the great ecological relevance of the soil community, insight into molecular processes underlying the ecology and evolution of soil invertebrates is largely unknown. Collembola (springtails) are important detritivorous hexapods that inhabit the soil and its litter layer. Orchesella cincta is an obligate sexually reproducing species and populations live in the soil litter layer feeding on decaying organic material. O. cincta populations living in metal contaminated areas, such as mining sites, have evolved tolerance to heavy metals.

Further details about Orchesella cincta can be obtained from the genome portal (www.collembolomics.nl) at the Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_001718145.1].

The total length of the assembly is 286,766,519 bp contained within 9402 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 65879 the scaffold L50 value is 925. Assembly gaps span 17714 bp. The total GC% is 37.0%.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.