The genome sequence of the Brown Argus, Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Alex Hayward; Konrad Lohse; Roger Vila; Dominik R Laetsch; Johanna S U Hedlund; 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.19784.1

The genome sequence of the Brown Argus, Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Aug 10:8:336. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19784.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Alex Hayward¹, Konrad Lohse², Roger Vila³, Dominik R Laetsch², Johanna S U Hedlund⁴; 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 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, UK.
² Institute of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
³ Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Abstract

We present genome assemblies from two male Aricia agestis specimens (the Brown Argus; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae). The genome sequences are 435.3 and 437.4 megabases in span. Each assembly is scaffolded into 23 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genomes were assembled and are 15.47 and 15.45 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of these assemblies on Ensembl identified 12,688 and 12,654 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Aricia agestis; Brown Argus; 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).