The genome sequence of the red compost earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus (Hoffmeister, 1843)

Stephen Short; Amaia Green Etxabe; Alex Robinson; David Spurgeon; Peter Kille; 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.19834.1

The genome sequence of the red compost earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus (Hoffmeister, 1843)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Aug 18:8:354. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19834.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Stephen Short¹, Amaia Green Etxabe¹, Alex Robinson¹, David Spurgeon¹, Peter Kille²; 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 Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual Lumbricus rubellus (the red compost earthworm; Annelida; Clitellata; Haplotaxida; Lumbricidae). The genome sequence is 787.5 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.81 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 33,426 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Haplotaxida; Lumbricus rubellus; chromosomal; genome sequence; red compost earthworm.

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). This work was also supported by research grants awarded to Pete Kille and David Spurgeon: NE/M01438X/1, NE/S000135/1 and NE/S000224/2 from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation).