Thrips palmi (Melon Thrips, BJ-2018) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Thrips palmi

Thrips palmi is an insect from the genus Thrips in the order Thysanoptera. It is known commonly as the melon thrips.

It is a primary vector of plant viruses. The melon thrips can cause damage to a wide range of glasshouse ornamental and vegetable crops, particularly plants in the families Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae, such as cucumber, aubergine, tomato and sweet pepper.[1]

Adults and nymphs feed by sucking the cell contents from leaves, stems, flowers and the surface of fruits, causing silvery scars and leaf chlorosis. Plants can be deformed and killed in heavy infestations. The pest almost certainly originated in Southeast Asia, but in recent decades it has been widely introduced and has been observed throughout Asia and the Pacific, Florida, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Australia.[1]

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Taxonomy ID 161013

(Text from Wikipedia.)

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_012932325.1].

The total length of the assembly is 237845416 bp contained within 17 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 14670875, the scaffold L50 value is 7. Assembly gaps span 693000 bp.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_012932325.1.

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.

References

1. Thrips palmi, melon thrips. University of Florida IFAS.