Rhipicephalus microplus (Southern cattle tick, Rmic-2018) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Rhipicephalus microplus

The Asian blue tick (Rhipicephalus microplus) is an economically important tick that parasitises a variety of livestock species especially cattle, on which it is the most economically significant ectoparasite in the world. It is known as the Australian cattle tick, southern cattle tick, Cuban tick, Madagascar blue tick, and Porto Rican Texas fever tick.

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(Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [1].)

Assembly

The assembly presented is the GCA013339725v1 assembly submitted[2,3] to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_013339725.1.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displays the genes from NCBI Rhipicephalus microplus Annotation Release 100. Small RNA features, protein features and cross-references have been annotated by Ensembl Metazoa.

The original TIGMIC Group[2,3] annotation added as a separate "CNCB-NGDC annotation" track.

References

1. Rhipicephalus microplus, (accessed January 11, 2022). Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

2. TIGMIC Group, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology

3. Large-Scale Comparative Analyses of Tick Genomes Elucidate Their Genetic Diversity and Vector Capacities. Jia N, Wang J, Shi W, et al. . Cell. 2020 Sep;182(5):1328-1340.e13. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.07.023. PMID: 32814014.