A chromosome-scale assembly of the major African malaria vector Anopheles funestus
Ghurye J, Koren S, Small S, Redmond S, Howell P, Phillippy A, Besansky N. A chromosome-scale assembly of the major African malaria vector Anopheles funestus. GigaScience 2019, 8: giz063. PMID: 31157884, PMCID: PMC6545970, DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giz063.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsReference genomeHigh-quality reference genomeCurrent reference assemblyHaploid genome sizeMajor African malaria vector Anopheles funestusN50 scaffold sizeChromosome-scale assemblyReference genome assemblyN50 contig sizeChromosome-scale scaffoldsMalaria vector Anopheles funestusAfrican malaria vector Anopheles funestusMbp of sequenceSingle-molecule sequencingPrimary assemblyAnopheles funestusHi-C dataImportant disease vectorChromosome scaffoldingGenome sizeGenome assemblyContig sizeReference assemblyGenomic variationAssociation of phenotypic