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Latrodectus hesperus

Summary

Tripal data table
Type	organism
Genus	Latrodectus
Species	hesperus
Common Name	Western black widow spider
Genome Browser	JBrowse Viewer for Latrodectus hesperus
Description	Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow spider or western widow, is a venomous spider species found in western regions of North America. The female's body is 14–16 mm (1/2 in) in length and is black, often with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the lower abdomen. This "hourglass" mark can be red, yellow, and on rare occasions, white. The male of the species is around half this length, and generally a beige color with lighter striping on the abdomen. The population was previously described as a subspecies of Latrodectus mactans, and it is closely related to the northern species Latrodectus variolus. The species, as with others of the genus, build irregular or "messy" webs. Unlike the spiral webs or the tunnel-shaped webs of some other spiders, the strands of a Latrodectus' web have no obvious overall organization. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_hesperus
Publication	Thomas GWC, Dohmen E, Hughes DST, Murali SC, Poelchau M, Glastad K, Anstead CA, Ayoub NA, Batterham P, Bellair M, Binford GJ, Chao H, Chen YH, Childers C, Dinh H, Doddapaneni HV, Duan JJ, Dugan S, Esposito LA, Friedrich M, Garb J, Gasser RB, Goodisman MAD, Gundersen-Rindal DE, Han Y, Handler AM, Hatakeyama M, Hering L, Hunter WB, Ioannidis P, Jayaseelan JC, Kalra D, Khila A, Korhonen PK, Lee CE, Lee SL, Li Y, Lindsey ARI, Mayer G, McGregor AP, McKenna DD, Misof B, Munidasa M, Munoz-Torres M, Muzny DM, Niehuis O, Osuji-Lacy N, Palli SR, Panfilio KA, Pechmann M, Perry T, Peters RS, Poynton HC, Prpic NM, Qu J, Rotenberg D, Schal C, Schoville SD, Scully ED, Skinner E, Sloan DB, Stouthamer R, Strand MR, Szucsich NU, Wijeratne A, Young ND, Zattara EE, Benoit JB, Zdobnov EM, Pfrender ME, Hackett KJ, Werren JH, Worley KC, Gibbs RA, Chipman AD, Waterhouse RM, Bornberg-Bauer E, Hahn MW, Richards S. Gene content evolution in the arthropods. . Genome biology. 2020 01 23; 21(1):15. Miles LS, Waterman H, Ayoub NA, Garb JE, Haney RA, Rosenberg MS, Krabbenhoft TJ, Verrelli BC. Insight into the adaptive role of arachnid genome-wide duplication through chromosome-level genome assembly of the Western black widow spider. The Journal of heredity. 2024 May 09; 115(3):241-252.
Organism Image
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Assembly Stats

Tripal data table
Contig N50	1.8 Mb
GC Content	28.5%
Scaffold N50	105.2 Mb

Other Information

Other Information Table
Community Contact	Nadia Ayoub, Washington and Lee University Brian C. Verrelli, Virginia Commonwealth University
Links	NCBI BioProject Download Data

Analyses

Tripal data table
Name	Program	Status Sort descending
Latrodectus hesperus annotations ASM3797512v2_GSv1.0	MAKER v 3.01.03; GFF3toolkit v2.1.0	Current
Latrodectus hesperus genome assembly ASM3797512v2 (GCA_037975125.2)	Flye	Current
Functional annotation of Latrodectus hesperus annotations ASM3797512v2_GSv1.0	AgBase functional annotation pipeline	Current
Latrodectus hesperus annotations LHES.Models_GCA_037975125.2	MAKER	Supressed
Whole genome assembly of Latrodectus hesperus	Baylor College of Medicine genome assembly pipeline	Supressed
Functional annotation of Latrodectus hesperus annotations LHES.Models_GCA_037975125.2	AgBase Functional Annotation Workflow	Supressed
Annotation v0.5.3 of the Latrodectus hesperus assembly using MAKER (Baylor College of Medicine)	MAKER	Supressed
Functional annotation of Annotation v0.5.3 of the Latrodectus hesperus assembly using MAKER	AgBase functional annotation pipeline	Supressed