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Anastrepha ludens

    Summary
    Type
    organism
    Genus
    Anastrepha
    Species
    ludens
    Common Name
    Mexican fruit fly
    Description

    Most species in the Anastrepha genus including A. ludens have a distinctive yellow and brown coloration of the body and wings. The adult A. ludens is 7–11 mm long, or slightly larger than a common house fly. They have a mesonotum that is 2.75-3.6 mm long and a wing span of 6.6-9.0 mm. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastrepha_ludens

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

    This genome project is part of the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest(link is external)).

    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
    Anastrepha ludens, adult female by Sheina B. Sim, USDA-ARS Daniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Service Tropical Pest Genetics and Molecular Biology Research Unit under CC-BY-SA license.
    Assembly Stats
    GC Content
    32.97
    Scaffold N50
    131385309
    Other Information
    Community Contact
    Sheina Sim, USDA-ARS; Scott Geib, USDA-ARS