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Drosophila elegans

Summary
Resource Type
Organism
Genus
Drosophila
Species
elegans
Common Name
D. elegans
Description

Drosophila elegans is a flower-feeding species of fruit flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae. It is found in Taiwan and the Philippines in Asia.

It belongs to the Drosophila melanogaster species group where it forms it own subgroup. There are two morphs (brown and black) of the species. The difference is due to the percentages of 7-pentacosene and 9-pentacosene on the cuticle.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_elegans

Genome update. Previously, the i5k Workspace@NAL hosted Drosophila elegans genome assembly Dele_2.0 (GCF_000224195.1), NCBI Drosophila elegans Annotation Release 101, and Annotation v0.5.3 of the Drosophila elegans assembly using Maker (Baylor College of Medicine) as part of the Drosophila modENCODE project. The assembly and annotations have been updated to the most recent assembly, GCF_018152505.1 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_018152505.1), and annotations, NCBI Drosophila elegans Annotation Release 102 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/annotation_euk/Drosophila_elegans/102/).

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Analysis
NameProgramDate Constructed
NCBI Drosophila elegans Annotation Release 101NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation PipelineJun 17th, 2016
Drosophila elegans genome assembly Dele_2.0 (GCF_000224195.1)Celera Assembler v. 6.1; BWA v. 0.6.0; Samtools v. 0.1.14; GATKv. 1.1-9; Indel_call_and_upgrade.pl v. 1.0Mar 4th, 2013
Annotation v0.5.3 of the Drosophila elegans assembly using Maker (Baylor College of Medicine)MakerMay 12th, 2014
Drosophila elegans genome assembly ASM1815250v1 (GCF_018152505.1)Flye v. 2.6; Racon v. 1.4.12; Medaka v. 0.9.1; Pilon v. 1.23Apr 28th, 2021
NCBI Drosophila elegans Annotation Release 102NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation PipelineMay 20th, 2021
Functional annotation of Drosophila elegans Annotation Release 102AgBase functional annotation pipelineOct 8th, 2021
Whole Genome Assembly of Drosophila elegans provided by the Baylor College of MedicineBaylor College of Medicine genome assembly pipelineApr 24th, 2014
Assembly Stats
Contig N50
21,933,072
Scaffold N50
NA
GC Content
37.67