The genome sequence of the wall brown, Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767)

Konrad Lohse; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Charlotte Wright; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18106.1

The genome sequence of the wall brown, Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767)

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Sep 12:7:230. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18106.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Konrad Lohse¹; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Charlotte Wright²; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Lasiommata megera (the wall brown; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 488 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.97%) is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules with the W and Z sex chromosomes assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.3 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Lasiommata megera; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; wall brown.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (206194) and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award (218328). KL is supported by an ERC grant (ModelGenom Land 757648) and a NERC fellowship (NE/L011522/1).