The genome sequence of the grizzled skipper, Pyrgus malvae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Alex Hayward; Roger Vila; Konrad Lohse; Dominik Laetsch; 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.17806.1

The genome sequence of the grizzled skipper, Pyrgus malvae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Mar 29:7:114. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17806.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Alex Hayward¹, Roger Vila², Konrad Lohse³, Dominik Laetsch³; 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 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
² Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.
³ Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Pyrgus malvae (the grizzled skipper; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). The genome sequence is 725 megabases in span. The majority (99.97%) of the assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the Z sex chromosome assembled.

Keywords: Lepidoptera; Pyrgus malvae; chromosomal; genome sequence; grizzled skipper.

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). Fieldwork was supported by an ERC grant (ModelGenom Land 757648) to KL. AH is supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) David Phillips Fellowship (BB/N020146/1). RV was supported by the Spanish government through grant PID2019-107078GB-I00/ MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033.