The genome sequence of the orange ladybird, Halyzia sedecimguttata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Liam M Crowley; Maxwell Barclay; Helen E Roy; Peter M J Brown; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Natural History Museum 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.19369.1

The genome sequence of the orange ladybird, Halyzia sedecimguttata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Apr 25:8:186. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19369.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Liam M Crowley¹, Maxwell Barclay², Helen E Roy³, Peter M J Brown⁴; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Natural History Museum 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 University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
² Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
³ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, England, UK.
⁴ School of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual Halyzia sedecimguttata (the orange ladybird, Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). The genome sequence is 919.1 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 10 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 21.0 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 27,547 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Coleoptera; Halyzia sedecimguttata; chromosomal; genome sequence; orange ladybird.

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). HER is supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (award no. NE/R016429/1) as part of the UK-SCAPE program delivering national capability.