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Dermacentor andersoni

Summary

Tripal data table
Type	organism
Genus	Dermacentor
Species	andersoni
Common Name	Rocky Mountain wood tick
Genome Browser	JBrowse Viewer for Dermacentor andersoni
Description	Dermacentor andersoni, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, is a hard tick, or member of the Ixodidae family, with three life stages including larvae, nymph, and finally adult, or, more entomologically, imago. This tick is generally located in the northwest United States and southwest Canada along the Rocky Mountains. This tick is generally a vector for Colorado tick fever, but can also be a vector for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermacentor_andersoni This genome project is part of the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest).
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). Tompkin JE, Saelao P, Kruczalak J, Yeo H, Olafson PU, Sim SB, Oyen K, Kelley M, Corpuz RL, Scheffler B, Geib SM, Childers AK, Chen X, Weirauch MT, Dergousoff SJ, Soghigian J, Noh SM, Benoit JB. Genome sequencing and multi-stage, blood-feeding, and tissue-specific transcriptome atlas of the Rocky Mountain wood tick provide a critical resource for this vector. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2026 Apr 17;.
Organism Image
Image Credit	Rocky Mountain wood tick by USDA Forest Service - Coeur d’Alene Field Office , Bugwood.org licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

Assembly Stats

Tripal data table
Contig N50	66.1 Mb
GC Content	46.5%
Scaffold N50	205.9 Mb

Other Information

Other Information Table
Community Contact	Susan Noh (USDA-ARS) Joshua Benoit (University of Cincinnati)
Links	NCBI BioProject Download data Ag100Pest Project

Analyses

Tripal data table
Name	Program	Status Sort descending
Dermacentor andersoni genome assembly qqDerAnde1_hic_scaffold (GCF_023375885.2)	HiFiASM v. 0.19.3-r572; YAHS v. 1.2a.2	Current
Functional annotation of NCBI Dermacentor andersoni Annotation Release GCF_023375885.2-RS_2025_03	AgBase functional annotation pipeline	Current
NCBI Dermacentor andersoni Annotation Release GCF_023375885.2-RS_2025_03	NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline	Current
Functional annotation of NCBI Dermacentor andersoni Annotation Release 100	AgBase functional annotation pipeline	Supressed
NCBI Dermacentor andersoni Annotation Release 100	NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline	Supressed
Dermacentor andersoni genome assembly qqDerAnde1.2 (GCF_023375885.1)	HiFiASM	Supressed