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. 2016 Mar 6;8(6):1762–1775. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw048

Table 1.

Metaseiulus occidentalis Genome Assembly and Gene Set Statistics Compared with Eight Other Arachnids

Acari: Parasitiformes Acari: Acariformes Araneae Scorpiones
Species Metaseiulus occidentalis Varroa destructor Ixodes scapularis Dermatophagoides farinae Sarcoptes scabiei Tetranychus urticae Stegodyphus mimosarum Acanthoscurria geniculata Mesobuthus martensii

Organism Western orchard predatory mite Honey bee parasitic mite Black-legged deer tick American house dust mite Itch mite (scabies) Two-spotted spider mite African social velvet spider Brazilian white-knee tarantula Chinese scorpion
Assembly GCA_000255335.1 GCA_000181155.1 GCA_000208615.1 GCA_000767015.1 GCA_000828355.1 GCA_000239435.1 GCA_000611955.2 GCA_000661875.1 GCA_000484575.1
Assembly method Celera v.6.1 Celera v.5.2 Celera v.4.0 AllPaths v.39075 Minia v.1.6088 Arachne 20071016 SOAPdenovo v.2 SOAPdenovo v.2 Velvet v.1.1.04
Velvet v.1.1.03 SSPACE
SOAPdenovo v.1.05 Standard v.3.0
Coverage (×) 17.7 5 6 436 174 8a 70 70 200
Assembly length (Mb) 151.7 294.1 1,765.4 53.5 56.3 90.8 2,738.7 7,178.4 925.5
1,128.5b
No. of Contigs 3,993 184,190 570,637 11,600 19,811 2,035 174,164 12,478,692 92,408
18,600c
Contig N50 (bp) 200,706 2,262 2,942 8,538 11,197 212,780 40,146 541 45,228
11.6 kbc 17,272d 277d 43,135b
No. of scaffolds 2,211 na 369,492 515 na 640 68,653 na na
Scaffold N50 (bp) 896,831 na 76,228 186,342 na 2,993,488 480,636 47,837d 223,560b
No. of protein-coding genes 18,338e 11,432g 20,486h 16,376i 10,473 18,414a 27,135 73,821k 32,016b
11,430f 10,644c 18,224j 27,235d
% CEGsl 98.0/96.8 67.7/32.3 79.8/41.9 97.6/96.4 98.0/93.5 98.0/95.2 61.7/24.2 32.7/14.9 57.3/24.2
% BUSCOsm(assembly) 82.3 [6.4], 8.3, 9.9 15.2 [0.5], 15.4, 69.5 68.9 [2.4], 21.0, 10.1 63.8 [3.5], 7.6, 28.6 62.0 [3.0], 8.4, 29.6 68.8 [5.8], 9.9, 21.3 53.7 [4.0], 27.4, 18.9 13.7 [1.9], 10.6, 75.7 34.4 [4.0], 23.0, 42.7
% BUSCOsm(gene set) 82.8 [12.0], 10.6, 6.5 na 69.4 [6.7], 23.4, 7.2 na 54.0 [4.7], 11.4, 34.6 69.3 [11.4], 9.6, 21.0 64.6 [10.5], 17.3, 18.1 na 23.1 [6.7], 16.4, 60.5

Note.—Unless otherwise indicated, values were retrieved from the NCBI.

e

NCBI Gnomon gene set.

f

NCBI RefSeq gene set.

g

Identified open-reading frames with significant sequence similarity to database sequences from Cornman et al. (2010).

h

IscaW1.4 gene set from VectorBase (www.vectorbase.org).

j

From EnsemblGenomes (http://metazoa.ensembl.org).

k

From Sanggaard et al. (2014), transcripts of more than 17 amino acids.

l

% of 248 CEGMA genes Found/Complete, in the assembly.

m

% of 2,675 arthropod BUSCOs Complete [Duplicated], Fragmented, Missing, in the assembly or in the gene set.