Schistocerca nitens (Vagrant locust, TAMUIC-IGC-003100) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Schistocerca nitens

Schistocerca nitens is a species of grasshopper known by several names, including vagrant grasshopper and gray bird grasshopper. It is a close relative of the desert locust, which is in the same genus. This grasshopper is native to southern North America including Mexico and the south-western United States from California to Texas. Vagrants are occasionally found in Colorado and Nebraska, where the climate is too cold for them to reproduce, otherwise. It is also present in parts of Central and South America. It lives in many habitats including desert, woodland, and lower elevation mountainous areas. It is a large grasshopper, reaching lengths of 4 to 7 centimeters. It is mostly brown and gray spotted or patched in cryptic coloration. This species is known as a pest on ornamental plants and many types of crop plants.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_023898315.1].

The total length of the assembly is 8822571301 bp contained within 512 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 992907699, the scaffold L50 value is 4. Assembly gaps span 157037 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_023898315.1.

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.