Draft Genome Assembly of the Poultry Red Mite, Dermanyssus gallinae.

ABSTRACT The poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae , is a major worldwide concern in the egg-laying industry. Here, we report the first draft genome assembly and gene prediction of Dermanyssus gallinae , based on combined PacBio and MinION long-read de novo sequencing. The ∼959-Mb genome is predicted to encode 14,608 protein-coding genes.