The genome sequence of the meadow brown, Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17304.1

The genome sequence of the meadow brown, Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2021 Nov 5:6:296. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17304.1. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Konrad Lohse¹, Jamie Weir¹; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Maniola jurtina (the meadow brown; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 402 megabases in span. The complete assembly is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the W and Z sex chromosome assembled. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl has identified 12,502 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Maniola jurtina; chromosomal; genome sequence; meadow 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 a NERC fellowship (NE/L011522/1) and an ERC grant (ModelGenom Land 757648). JW is supported by an EastBio PhD studentship.