Pectinophora gossypiella (Pink bollworm) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Pectinophora gossypiella

The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) is an insect known for being a pest in cotton farming. The adult is a small, thin, gray moth with fringed wings. The larva is a dull white caterpillar with eight pairs of legs with conspicuous pink banding along its dorsum. The larva reaches one half inch in length.

The female moth lays eggs in a cotton boll, and when the larvae emerge from the eggs, they inflict damage through feeding. They chew through the cotton lint to feed on the seeds. Since cotton is used for both fiber and seed oil, the damage is twofold. Their disruption of the protective tissue around the boll is a portal of entry for other insects and fungi.

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Taxonomy ID 13191

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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_024362695.1].

The total length of the assembly is 476509747 bp contained within 152 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 16702263, the scaffold L50 value is 13. Assembly gaps span 9014 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 38.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_024362695.1.

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.