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Helicoverpa zea

Summary
Analysis
Assembly Stats
Other Information
Summary
Resource Type
Organism
Genus
Helicoverpa
Species
zea
Common Name
Corn earworm
Description

Helicoverpa zea, commonly known as the corn earworm, is a species (formerly in the genus Heliothis) in the family Noctuidae.[1] The larva of the moth Helicoverpa zea is a major agricultural pest. 

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicoverpa_zea

This genome project is part of the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest).

This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use.
Publication
  1. Stahlke AR, Chang J, Tembrock LR, Sim SB, Chudalayandi S, Geib SM, Scheffler BE, Perera OP, Gilligan TM, Childers AK, Hackett KJ, Coates BS. A chromosome-scale genome assembly of a Helicoverpa zea strain resistant to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac insecticidal protein.. Genome biology and evolution. 2022 Aug 12.
  2. Childers AK, Geib SM, Sim SB, Poelchau MF, Coates BS, Simmonds TJ, Scully ED, Smith TPL, Childers CP, Corpuz RL, Hackett K, Scheffler B. The USDA-ARS Ag100Pest Initiative: High-Quality Genome Assemblies for Agricultural Pest Arthropod Research.. Insects. 2021 Jul 09; 12(7).
Organism Image
Image Credit
corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea by W. Billen, Pflanzenbeschaustelle, Weil am Rhein, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Analysis
NameProgramDate Constructed
Helicoverpa zea genome assembly ilHelZeax1 (GCF_022581195.2)FALCON v. 1.8.1; FALCON-Unzip v. 1.3.7; purge_dups v. 1.2.5; bwa-mem v. 2.2.1; Juicebox v. 1.11.08; Arrow gcpp v. 2.0.2; FreeBayes v. 1.0.2; Merqury v. 1.1Mar 18th, 2022
NCBI Helicoverpa zea Annotation Release 100NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation PipelineMar 25th, 2022
Functional annotation of NCBI Helicoverpa zea Annotation Release 100AgBase functional annotation pipelineApr 19th, 2022
Assembly Stats
Scaffold N50
12841304
GC Content
36.98
Other Information
Community Contact
Brad Coates, USDA-ARS
Links
NCBI BioProject
Download data
Ag100Pest Project