Cucurbita pepo
Cpe Cucurbitaceae Cucurbitales

Cucurbita pepo

40 2n Chromosomes
Cucurbitaceae Family
Taxonomic Classification
Kingdom Plantae Phylum Magnoliophyta Class Magnoliopsida Order Cucurbitales Family Cucurbitaceae
Genome & Ploidy
2n
40 chromosomes
Polyploidy History (PhyloWGD)
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Species Notes
Description
Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita. It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash.
Data source
build_pgdd_species_jsons.py
Wikipedia
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Image credit
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Protein sequences
FASTA (.pep) — amino acid sequences for all annotated genes
Gene coordinates
BED format — chromosomal positions for MCScanX input
Coding sequences
FASTA (.cds) — nucleotide CDS for Ka/Ks analysis
Gene type annotations
TSV — gene duplication classifications
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Analysis Tools
Synteny & Collinearity
Evolutionary Analysis
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