| Entry | T01079 |
| Org code | cqu |
| Name | Culex quinquefasciatus (southern house mosquito) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:7176 |
| Lineage | Eukaryota; Metazoa; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae; Culex; Culex quinquefasciatus |
| Org group | Animals; Insects; Diptera |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: animals [BR:br08612] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000209185.1 Scaffold) |
| Original db | VectorBase |
| Comment | Mosquito vector of viruses such as West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus, as well as of nematodes that cause lymphatic filariasis. |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 18896
Number of RNA genes: 3770 |
| Created | 2009 |
| Reference | PMID: 20929810 |
| Authors | Arensburger P, Megy K, Waterhouse RM, Abrudan J, Amedeo P, Antelo B, Bartholomay L, Bidwell S, Caler E, Camara F, et al. |
| Title | Sequencing of Culex quinquefasciatus establishes a platform for mosquito comparative genomics. |
| Journal | Science 330:86-8 (2010)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191864 |
