Trichogramma pretiosum (Parasitoid wasp, Unisexual culture from Peru) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Trichogramma pretiosum

Trichogramma pretiosum are minute polyphagous wasps and endoparasitoids of insect eggs. The genus Trichogramma is one of around 80 genera within the family Trichogrammatidae, with over 200 species destributed worldwide. Trichogramma spp. have been used for control of lepidopteran pests for many years. Velvetbean caterpillars Anticarsia gemmatalis among other pests such as Pseudoplusia includens, soybean webworm Omiodes indicata and southern army worm Spodoptera eridania are all known are major pests of Soybean (Glycine max). Egg parasitoids, such as those from genus: Trichogramma have been recognized as an important biological control agent of those pests due to their worldwide distribution and ability to parasitize the eggs of not only the above mentioned pests but a great diversity of pests from the order Lepidoptera (1).

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Taxonomy ID 7493

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_000599845.2].

The total length of the assembly is 187641947 bp contained within 925 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 1825723, the scaffold L50 value is 33. Assembly gaps span 706451 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 40.0%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v101. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. Rakes, Matheus et al. “Pesticide selectivity to the parasitoid Trichogramma pretiosum: A pattern 10-year database and its implications for Integrated Pest Management.” Ecotoxicology and environmental safety vol. 208 (2021): 111504.