Schistocerca cancellata (South American locust, TAMUIC-IGC-003103) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Schistocerca cancellata

Schistocerca cancellata is a species of locust in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. It is the major swarming species in subtropical South America. This species shows typical locust phase polymorphism. Solitarious nymphs are green, but gregarious ones are yellow with a black pattern. There are morphological differences between solitarious and gregarious adults. For many years the two phases were believed to be different species and the gregarious form was mistakenly identified as S. paranensis.

The solitary phase is found in South America between 18°S and 35°S. Plagues originate in a desert and semi-desert zona permanente in NW Argentina, SE Bolivia and W Paraguay, when good rains allow successful breeding, followed by gregarisation. Swarms of gregarious adults may then migrate into crop growing regions.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_023864275.1].

The total length of the assembly is 8536893415 bp contained within 1108 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 939673033, the scaffold L50 value is 4. Assembly gaps span 197448 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 42.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_023864275.1.

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.