The genome sequence of the Golden-tailed Leafwalker, Xylota sylvarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Liam M Crowley; Will Nash; 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.19241.1

The genome sequence of the Golden-tailed Leafwalker, Xylota sylvarum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Mar 23:8:134. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19241.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Liam M Crowley¹, Will Nash²; 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 Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
² Earlham Institute, Norwich, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Xylota sylvarum (the Golden-tailed Leafwalker; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae). The genome sequence is 534.8 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into five chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the assembled X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 16.0 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 11,993 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Diptera; Golden-tailed Leafwalker; Xylota sylvarum; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom