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Pectinophora gossypiella

Summary
Analysis
Assembly Stats
Other Information
Summary
Resource Type
Organism
Genus
Pectinophora
Species
gossypiella
Common Name
pink bollworm
Description

The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella; Spanish: lagarta rosada) is an insect known for being a pest in cotton farming. The adult is a small, thin, gray moth with fringed wings. The larva is a dull white caterpillar with eight pairs of legs[1] with conspicuous pink banding along its dorsum. The larva reaches one half inch in length. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_bollworm

This genome project is part of the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest).
Publication
  1. Stahlke AR, Chang J, Chudalayandi S, Heu CC, Geib SM, Scheffler BE, Childers AK, Fabrick JA. Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella, a global pest of cotton.. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). 2023 Feb 15.
  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
pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) - 5516042 by Todd Gilligan, LepIntercept, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
Analysis
NameProgramDate Constructed
Pectinophora gossypiella genome assembly ilPecGoss1.1 (GCF_024362695.1)FALCON v. 1.8.1; FALCON-Unzip v. 1.3.7; purge_dups v. 1.2.5; bwa-mem v. 2.2.1; YaHS v. 1.0; Juicebox v. 1.11.08; Arrow gcpp v. 2.0.2; FreeBayes v. 1.0.2; Merqury v. 1.1Jul 22nd, 2022
NCBI Pectinophora gossypiella Annotation Release 100NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation PipelineAug 15th, 2022
Functional annotation of NCBI Pectinophora gossypiella Annotation Release 100AgBase functional annotation pipelineSep 12th, 2022
Assembly Stats
Scaffold N50
16702263
GC Content
39.83
Other Information
Community Contact
Jeff Fabrick (USDA-ARS), Colin Brent (USDA-ARS)
Links
NCBI BioProject
Download data
Ag100Pest Project