Stegodyphus dumicola (Social spider, AA2019) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Stegodyphus dumicola

Stegodyphus dumicola, commonly known as the African social spider, is a species of spider of the family Eresidae or the velvet spider family. It is native to Central and southern Africa. This spider is one of three Stegodyphus spiders that lives a social lifestyle. This spider has been studied living in large natal colonies in large, unkempt webs. Each colony is composed mainly of females, where a minority act as reproducers, and a majority remain females and take care of the young. Males live a shorter lifespan and will largely remain in the natal nest throughout its life. Females are known for extreme allomaternal care, since all females, even unmated virgin females will take care of the young until they are eventually consumed by the brood.

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_010614865.2].

The total length of the assembly is 2551176228 bp contained within 16518 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 254139, the scaffold L50 value is 2972. Assembly gaps span 351 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 33.5%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.