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  1. Organism
  2. Contarinia Nasturtii

Contarinia nasturtii

Summary
Type
organism
Genus
Contarinia
Species
nasturtii
Common Name
Swede midge
Description

Contarinia nasturtii, the swede midge, is a small fly, the larvae of which infest brassica plants, causing twisting and distortion of the leaf stems and foliage including death of the growing point in seedlings, or damage to developing flower heads. It is native to Europe and Turkey, and has been introduced into North America where it is regarded as an invasive species.

Text source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contarinia_nasturtii(link is external))

This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use.
Publication
Mori BA, Coutu C, Chen YH, Campbell EO, Dupuis JR, Erlandson MA, Hegedus DD. De Novo Whole-Genome Assembly of the Swede Midge (Contarinia nasturtii), a Specialist of Brassicaceae, Using Linked-Read Sequencing. . Genome biology and evolution. 2021 Mar 01; 13(3).
Organism Image
Image Credit
swede midge, Contarinia nasturtii (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) - 1253040(link is external) by Susan Ellis, USDA APHIS PPQ, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Assembly Stats
Contig N50
95,005
GC Content
34.00
Scaffold N50
4,652,070
Other Information
Community Contact
Cathy Coutu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Links
NCBI BioSample(link is external)
Annotation1
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Analyses
Name Program
Contarinia nasturtii genome assembly AAFC_CNas_1.1 (GCF_009176525.2). Supernova
Functional annotation of NCBI Contarinia nasturtii Annotation Release 100 AgBase functional annotation pipeline