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Chelonus insularis

Summary
Analysis
Assembly Stats
Other Information
Summary
Resource Type
Organism
Genus
Chelonus
Species
insularis
Description

The genome sequence and assembly of a parasitoid wasp, Chelonus insularis. Chelonus is a wasp genus in the subfamily Cheloninae. Their larvae feed chiefly on larvae of moths in superfamilies Tortricoidea and Pyraloidea. This wasp is an important egg parasitoid of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, one of the main insect pests of maize (Zea mays L.)

The work was funded by "RoL: Collaborative Research: When a pathogen becomes a mutualist: discovery, evolution and rules that govern function and acquisition in wasp-viral symbiosis" (Grant ID DEB-1916788, National Science Foundation).

This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use.
Organism Image
Image Credit
Female of Chelonus insularis parasitizing FAW eggs (left); two FAW larvae of the same age by CIMMYT licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Analysis
NameProgramDate Constructed
Chelonus insularis genome assembly ASM1335770v1 (GCF_013357705.1)FlyeJun 17th, 2020
NCBI Chelonus insularis Annotation Release 100NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation PipelineJun 23rd, 2020
Functional annotation of NCBI Chelonus insularis Annotation Release 100AgBase functional annotation pipelineFeb 24th, 2022
Assembly Stats
Contig N50
1162728
Scaffold N50
1162728
Other Information
Community Contact
Gaelen Burke, University of Georgia
Links
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