The genome sequence of the tree wasp, Dolichovespula sylvestris Scopoli, 1763

Steven Falk; 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; Gavin R Broad; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17783.1

The genome sequence of the tree wasp, Dolichovespula sylvestris Scopoli, 1763

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Mar 28:7:113. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17783.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Steven Falk¹; 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; Gavin R Broad²; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Independent Researcher, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK.
² Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Dolichovespula sylvestris (the tree wasp; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Vespidae). The genome sequence is 233 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (95.56%) is scaffolded into 26 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 21.3 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Dolichovespula sylvestris; Hymenoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; tree wasp.

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).