A draft of the genome of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102090
• Publication Date: 2022-11-23T09:13:56Z
• Authors: Jose M.C. Ribeiro; Natalia J. Bayona...; Khemraj Budachetri; Deepak Kumar; Julia Catherine F...; Faizan Tahir; Brant C. Faircloth; Travis C. Glenn; Shahid Karim
• Keywords: Amblyomma americanum

The Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum, inhabits the Southeastern states of USA bordering Mexico, and other Central South American countries. More recently, its U.S. range has extended West to Arizona Northeast New York state Connecticut. It is a vector Rickettsia parkeri Hepatozoon americanum. This tick species become model study tick/Rickettsia interactions. To increase our knowledge basic biology A. maculatum we report here draft genome this an extensive functional classification proteome. DNA from single male was used as genomic source, 10X genomics protocol determined 28,460 scaffolds having equal or more than 10 Kb, totaling 1.98 Gb. N50 scaffold size 19,849 Kb. BRAKER pipeline find protein-coding gene boundaries on assembled genome, discovering 237,921 CDS. After trimming classifying transposable elements, bacterial contaminants, truncated genes, set 25,702 were annotated classified core products. A BUSCO analysis revealed 83.4% complete BUSCOs. hyperlinked spreadsheet provided, allowing browsing individual products their matches several databases.