Compounds documented for Macrocystidia cucumis across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Macrocystidia cucumis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
Marker genes1
GenBank sequences9
eDNA detections47
Countries7
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★ITS9
fungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualMacrocystidia cucumis carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Genome size46 750 000 bp
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
THIS GENOME Macrocystidia cucumis0.05 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Assembly levelScaffold
Completeness91.4% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type5 691 records
Wild obs. + sensor5 005
Museum / vouchered663
Cultivated / captive1
Other22
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO13 388 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy46% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 390≤1 km 643≤10 km 2 284>10 km 116
4 433 georeferenced · 572 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor5 005
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy68% within 1 km
≤100 m 62≤1 km 154≤10 km 80>10 km 22
318 georeferenced · 345 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence663
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions43 of 77 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Helsinki, FI
52
Olocation not on record
47
Kew, GB
37
Copenhagen, DK
24
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
21
Görlitz, DE
18
Uppsala, SE
17
WU-MYClocation not on record
16
JA-CAGPDS-CAMlocation not on record
15
BDBClocation not on record
15
Vancouver, CA
14
Karlsruhe, DE
13
MeiseBGlocation not on record
13
GJOlocation not on record
13
Bardejov, SK
12
Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocagelocation not on record
12
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
10
San Sebastián, ES
10
LDlocation not on record
10
Philadelphia, US
9
TENN-Flocation not on record
7
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
6
TUR-Alocation not on record
6
Zürich, CH
5
5
Kyiv, UA
5
IB FRC Komi SC UB RASlocation not on record
5
CJBGlocation not on record
4
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
4
TROMlocation not on record
4
Vitoria, ES
4
Salzburg, AT
4
Blacksburg, US
3
Chiba, JP
3
Joensuu, FI
3
MAlocation not on record
3
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record
3
Chicago, US
3
Stockholm, SE
3
Trondheim, NO
3
Tartu, EE
3
Berlin, DE
2
TFC Miclocation not on record
2
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
2
Oulu, FI
2
BRNUlocation not on record
2
Osaka, JP
2
Tilburg, NL
2
Auckland, NZ
2
Bronx, US
2
Staten Island, US
2
Ann Arbor, US
2
Paris, FR
1
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
1
Denver, US
1
Hobart, AU
1
Leicester, GB
1
HabitatVisionlocation not on record
1
nsnflocation not on record
1
Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan Universitylocation not on record
1
Lausanne, CH
1
Odawara, JP
1
Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record
1
Personal Herbarium of Django Grootmyerslocation not on record
1
Gijón, ES
1
Tromso University Museumlocation not on record
1
V. N. Karazin National Universitylocation not on record
1
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record
1
Jyväskylä, FI
1
Kuopio, FI
1
Warsaw, PL
1
Turku, FI
1
Mlocation not on record
1
Davis and Elkins Collegelocation not on record
1
Durham, US
1
NAlocation not on record
1
Tomioka, JP
1
77 institutions · 511 of 663 vouchered records shown · 152 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA47 detections
Where the DNA of Macrocystidia cucumis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found47
Studies independent surveys4
Countries7
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 47 detections have coordinates
Open the map7 countries0
IndomalayanPalearctic
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median11.2 °C 5.60–17.0
Seasonal swing summer↔winter22.5 °C
Max temp (day)15.0 °C 8.00–19.9
Min temp (night)7.70 °C 2.60–15.6
Precipitation67.8 mm/mo 58.0–118
Air humidity62.0 % 56.9–66.8
Moisture balance10.8 mm/mo
Vapour deficit565 Pa 309–751
Wind speed4.00 m/s
Cloud cover42.4 % 37.7–56.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 44 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 691 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI47 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗