The genome sequence of the thick-headed fly, Myopa tessellatipennis (Motschulsky, 1859)

Michael Ashworth; Steven Falk; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; 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 K Clements; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19108.1

The genome sequence of the thick-headed fly, Myopa tessellatipennis (Motschulsky, 1859)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Mar 10:8:115. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19108.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Michael Ashworth¹, Steven Falk²; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; 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 K Clements³; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Independent Researcher, Yeovil, Somerset, UK.
² Independent Researcher, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK.
³ Conopid Recording Scheme for Britain & Ireland, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Myopa tessellatipennis (Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Conopidae). The genome sequence is 249.3 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into four chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the assembled X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 18.3 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Conopidae; Diptera; Myopa tessellatipennis; chromosomal; genome sequence; thick-headed fly.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194) and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award (218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328).