Draft genome assembly of the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae.

Authors: Burgess, Stewart T G and Bartley, Kathryn and Nunn, Francesca and Wright, Harry W and Hughes, Margaret and Gemmell, Matthew and Haldenby, Sam and Paterson, Steve and Rombauts, Stephane and Tomley, Fiona M and Blake, Damer P and Pritchard, James and Schicht, Sabine and Strube, Christina and Øines, Øivind and Van Leeuwen, Thomas and Van de Peer, Yves and Nisbet, Alasdair J

The poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, is a major worldwide concern in the egg-laying industry. Here, we report the first draft genome assembly and gene prediction of Dermanyssus gallinae, based on combined PacBio and MinION long-read de novo sequencing. The ~959-Mb genome is predicted to encode 14,608 protein-coding genes.

Journal: Microbiology resource announcements
DOI: 10.1128/MRA.01221-18
Year: 2018

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