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Ornithodoros turicata
Summary
| Type |
organism
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| Genus |
Ornithodoros
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| Species |
turicata
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| Common Name |
Relapsing fever tick
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| Description | |
| 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).
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| Organism Image |
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| Image Credit |
Ornithodoros turicata Travis colony, female, dorsal, 25x by Alexander Kneubhel licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license
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Assembly Stats
| Contig N50 |
2.7 Mb
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|---|---|
| GC Content |
46%
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| Scaffold N50 |
84.4 Mb
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Other Information
| Community Contact |
Perot Saelao, USDA-ARS; Job Lopez, Baylor College of Medicine; Alexander Kneubehl, Baylor College of Medicine; Pete Teel, Texas A&M
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| Links |
Analyses
| Name | Program |
|---|---|
| Ornithodoros turicata genome assembly ASM3712646v1 (GCF_037126465.1) | HiFiASM |
| NCBI Ornithodoros turicata Annotation Release GCF_037126465.1-RS_2024_04 | NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline |
| Functional annotation of NCBI Ornithodoros turicata Annotation Release GCF_037126465.1-RS_2024_04 | AgBase functional annotation pipeline |
Ornithodoros turicata, commonly referred to as the relapsing fever tick, is a soft tick found in the midwestern and southwestern United States. It is a known vector of Borrelia turicatae, a spirochete responsible for tick-borne relapsing fever in humans. Additionally, vector competence for the transmission of Leptospira pomona, the agent of canine jaundice, has been demonstrated in a laboratory setting. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithodoros_turicata
This genome project is part of the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest).