The genome sequence of the plain dark bee, Stelis phaeoptera (Kirby, 1802)

Clare Boyes; 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.18876.1

The genome sequence of the plain dark bee, Stelis phaeoptera (Kirby, 1802)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Jan 27:8:42. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18876.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Clare Boyes¹; 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

Affiliation

¹ Independent Researcher, Wytham, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Stelis phaeoptera (the plain dark bee; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Megachilidae). The genome sequence is 301 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 17 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 18.6 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 9,850 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Stelis phaeoptera; chromosomal; Hymenoptera; genome sequence; plain dark bee.

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).