Genome Sequence of Galleria mellonella (Greater Wax Moth)

Anna Lange; Sina Beier; Daniel H Huson; Raphael Parusel; Franz Iglauer; Julia-Stefanie Frick

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01220-17

Genome Sequence of Galleria mellonella (Greater Wax Moth)

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 11;6(2):e01220-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01220-17.

Authors

Anna Lange^#¹, Sina Beier^#², Daniel H Huson³, Raphael Parusel¹, Franz Iglauer⁴, Julia-Stefanie Frick⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
² Algorithms in Bioinformatics, ZBIT Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
³ Algorithms in Bioinformatics, ZBIT Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany daniel.huson@uni-tuebingen.de julia-stefanie.frick@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
⁴ Einrichtung für Tierschutz, Tierärztlichen Dienst und Labortierkunde, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁵ Department for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany daniel.huson@uni-tuebingen.de julia-stefanie.frick@med.uni-tuebingen.de.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

The larvae of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella, are pests of active beehives. In infection biology, these larvae are playing a more and more attractive role as an invertebrate host model. Here, we report on the first genome sequence of Galleria mellonella.