Schistocerca gregaria (Grasshoppers, iqSchGreg1) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Schistocerca gregaria

The desert locust is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. They are found primarily in the deserts and dry areas of northern and eastern Africa, Arabia, and southwest Asia. During population surge years, they may extend north into parts of western Spain and southern Italy, south into Eastern Africa, and east in northern India. The desert locust shows periodic changes in its body form and can change in response to environmental conditions, over several generations, from a solitary, shorter-winged, highly fecund, non-migratory form to a gregarious, long-winged, and migratory phase in which they may travel long distances into new areas. In some years, they may thus form locust plagues, invading new areas, where they may consume all vegetation including crops, and at other times, they may live unnoticed in small numbers.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_023897955.1].

The total length of the assembly is 8742434016 bp contained within 1475 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 791150472, the scaffold L50 value is 5. Assembly gaps span 31200 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_023897955.1.

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.