The genome sequence of the Powdered Quaker, Orthosia gracilis (Schiffermüller, 1775)

Douglas Boyes; 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.19644.1

The genome sequence of the Powdered Quaker, Orthosia gracilis (Schiffermüller, 1775)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Jul 7:8:290. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19644.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Douglas Boyes¹, Clare Boyes²; 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 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, England, UK.
² Independent researcher, Welshpool, Wales, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Orthosia gracilis (the powdered quaker; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae). The genome sequence is 715.5 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 14 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.43 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Lepidoptera; Orthosia gracilis; chromosomal; genome sequence; powdered quaker.

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).