The genome sequence of the peppered moth, Biston betularia Linnaeus, 1758

Douglas Boyes; Charlotte Wright; 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; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17578.1

The genome sequence of the peppered moth, Biston betularia Linnaeus, 1758

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Mar 17:7:97. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17578.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Douglas Boyes¹, Charlotte Wright²; 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; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
² Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Biston betularia (the peppered moth; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae). The genome sequence is 405 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.99%) is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the Z sex chromosome assembled.Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl has identified 12,251 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Biston betularia; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; peppered moth.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom