Copidosoma floridanum
 Copidosoma floridanum Source: Michael Strand |
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Copidosoma floridanum is the best studied insect that undergoes polyembryonic development. Its development is highly novel and has also evolved a caste (social) system by novel mechanism.
Particularly unique is this species produces >2000 clonal progeny per egg that are genetically identical. This unique feature of development provides an enormous quantity of DNA for full genome sequencing that derives from a single male (haploid) egg. The technical advantage this provides is unrivaled by any other parasitic hymenopteran.
The species is in continuous culture such that material is immediately available. The species is important to agriculture as the wasp is used in biological control. The species is also phylogenitically well placed for comparison to other species like Nasonia and the honeybee.
Genomic Resources
For the most current version of the assembly, please use 'NCBI BioProject' (find link below). If the assembly is unavailable in the BioProject page (it is still being worked on), you can look under the 'BCM-HGSC data' (find link below) for intermediate versions of the assembly.
Web Apollo: A web-based sequence annotation editor for community annotation
For information about Web Apollo, please contact Monica Poelchau.
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Web Apollo annotation tool (requires log in)
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Web Apollo Jbrowse viewing of the automated annotation tracks (no log in required)