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Photinus pyralis

Summary
Analysis
Assembly Stats
Other Information
Summary
Resource Type
Organism
Genus
Photinus
Species
pyralis
Common Name
Common eastern firefly
Description

Photinus pyralis, known by the common names common eastern firefly and big dipper firefly, is the most common species of firefly in North America. P. pyralis is a flying and light-producing beetle with a light organ on the ventral side of its abdomen. This organism is sometimes incorrectly classified as Photuris pyralis, which likely results from mistaking the similar-sounding genus Photuris.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photinus_pyralis
Publication
Fallon TR, Lower SE, Chang CH, Bessho-Uehara M, Martin GJ, Bewick AJ, Behringer M, Debat HJ, Wong I, Day JC, Suvorov A, Silva CJ, Stanger-Hall KF, Hall DW, Schmitz RJ, Nelson DR, Lewis SM, Shigenobu S, Bybee SM, Larracuente AM, Oba Y, Weng JK. Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles.. eLife. 2018 10 16; 7.
Organism Image
Image Credit
common eastern firefly (Photinus pyralis) by Jessica Louque, Smithers Viscient, Bugwood.org licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Analysis
NameProgramDate Constructed
Photinus pyralis genome assembly Ppyr1.3 (GCF_008802855.1)MaSuRCAFeb 1st, 2021
NCBI Photinus pyralis Annotation Release 100NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation PipelineOct 28th, 2019
Functional annotation of Photinus pyralis Annotation Release 100AgBase functional annotation pipelineFeb 19th, 2021
Assembly Stats
Contig N50
170,308
Scaffold N50
47,017,841
GC Content
36.4
Other Information
Community Contact
Sarah Lower, Bucknell University
Links
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