Sitophilus oryzae (Rice weevil) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Sitophilus oryzae

The rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) is a stored product pest which attacks seeds of several crops, including wheat, rice, and maize. The adults are usually between 3 and 4.6 mm long, with a long snout.

Female S. oryzae use strong mandibles to chew a hole into a grain kernel after which she deposits a single egg within the hole, sealing it with secretions from her ovipositor. The larva develops within the grain, hollowing it out while feeding. It then pupates within the grain kernel and emerges 2–4 days after eclosion.

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Taxonomy ID 7048

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_002938485.1].

The total length of the assembly is 770567808 bp contained within 2025 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 2860826, the scaffold L50 value is 73. Assembly gaps span 12640934 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 32.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_002938485.1.

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.