The genome sequence of the Arran brown, Erebia ligea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Konrad Lohse; Alex Hayward; Dominik R Laetsch; Roger Vila; Kay Lucek; 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.18115.1

The genome sequence of the Arran brown, Erebia ligea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Oct 13:7:259. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18115.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Konrad Lohse¹, Alex Hayward², Dominik R Laetsch¹, Roger Vila³, Kay Lucek⁴; 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 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
³ Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Spain.
⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Erebia ligea (Arran brown; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 506 megabases in span. The majority (99.92%) of the assembly is scaffolded into 29 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the Z sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.2 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Arran brown; Erebia ligea; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence.

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). KL and DL are supported by an ERC grant (ModelGenomLand 757648). KL was also supported by a NERC fellowship (NE/L011522/1). AH is supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) David Phillips Fellowship (BB/N020146/1). RV was supported by the Spanish government through grant PID2019-107078GB-I00/ MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033.