Abstract 2805 The annotation of several venom genes from the parasitoid wasp Ganaspis sp

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, are frequently infected with venom from various parasitoid wasps. During host infection, parasitoid wasps inject their venom and eggs into fly larvae resulting in a suppressed immune response and the developing wasp will eventually terminate the fly host. Genes within Ganaspis sp. that encode virulence proteins were identified by a transcriptomic-proteomic approach (Mortimer et al., 2013; Goecks et al., 2013). This research focuses on annotating several of these venom genes using a variety of software tools provided by the contributors of the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) project such as: the UCSC Genome browser, tblastn, Gene Record Finder, FlyBase and Gene Model Checker in order to facilitate the identification of gene models and their subsequent annotations.