The genome sequence of a soldier beetle, Cantharis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Olga Sivell; Duncan Sivell; Michael Geiser; 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.19986.1

The genome sequence of a soldier beetle, Cantharis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Oct 18:8:478. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19986.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Olga Sivell¹, Duncan Sivell¹, Michael Geiser¹; 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

Affiliation

¹ Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Cantharis rufa (soldier beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cantharidae). The genome sequence is 355.3 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 7 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.34 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Cantharis rufa; Coleoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; soldier beetle.

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).