Tetranychus evansi Gene Descriptions via Reciprocal BLASTp Against T. urticae

Reciprocal BLASTp searches with an E-value threshold of 1e-5 were used to assign gene descriptions from Tetranychus urticae to Tetranychus evansi gene IDs. The dataset, authored by Dries Amezian and last updated in May 2026, includes annotation files, a genome assembly, and reciprocal hit results totaling 101.6 MB. Gene IDs without a reciprocal best hit were annotated as hypothetical proteins.

Use Cases

• Comparative genomics analysis based on reciprocal best BLAST hits between T. evansi and T. urticae.
• Functional annotation of T. evansi genes using descriptions transferred from a well-annotated relative.
• Identification of conserved hypothetical proteins in T. evansi based on the absence of reciprocal hits.

Strengths

• Uses a defined reciprocal BLASTp methodology with a specific E-value threshold (1e-5).
• Includes multiple file types (GFF3, FSA, CSV) providing genome annotation, assembly, and hit results.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analyses.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Reciprocal BLASTp searches performed against Tetranychus urticae protein sequences from the ORCAE database.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 09:16:37; freshness should be verified.