The genome sequence of the yellow-legged clearwing, Synanthedon vespiformis (Linnaeus, 1761)

Douglas Boyes; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; 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; David Lees; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18109.1

The genome sequence of the yellow-legged clearwing, Synanthedon vespiformis (Linnaeus, 1761)

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Sep 14:7:233. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18109.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Douglas Boyes¹; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; 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; David Lees²; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
² Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Synanthedon vespiformis (the yellow-legged clearwing; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Sesiidae). The genome sequence is 287 megabases in span. Of the assembly, 100% is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules with the Z sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 17.3 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Lepidoptera; Synanthedon vespiformis; chromosomal; genome sequence; yellow-legged clearwing.

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).