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Schistocerca piceifrons

    Summary
    Type
    organism
    Genus
    Schistocerca
    Species
    piceifrons
    Common Name
    Central American Locust
    Description

    This genome project is a joint effort between the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (https://behavioralplasticity.org(link is external)) and the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest(link is external)).

    S. piceifrons is closely related to Schistocerca americana,[3] but exhibits a greater degree of phase polymorphism referred to in the technical literature as "density-dependent phenotypic plasticity.[4] It is the swarming locust of tropical America.[4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistocerca_piceifrons)

    This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use.

    Publication
    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
    Schistocerca_piceifrons.jpg by Brandon Woo
    Assembly Stats
    Other Information
    Community Contact
    Hojun Song, Texas A&M University; Anna Childers, Agricultural Research Service; Olga Dudchenko, Baylor College of Medicine
    Analyses
    Name Program
    Functional annotation of NCBI Schistocerca piceifrons Annotation Release 100 AgBase functional annotation pipeline
    NCBI Schistocerca piceifrons Annotation Release 100 NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
    Schistocerca piceifrons genome assembly iqSchPice1.1 (GCF_021461385.2) HiFiASM v. 0.15.4; 3D-DNA v. 210817; Juicebox Assembly Tools v. 1.11