The genome sequence of the Festoon, Apoda limacodes (Hufnagel, 1766)

Gavin R Broad; 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.18747.1

The genome sequence of the Festoon, Apoda limacodes (Hufnagel, 1766)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Jan 12:8:19. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18747.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Gavin R Broad¹; 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 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Apoda limacodes (the Festoon; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Limacodidae). The genome sequence is 800 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 25 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the assembled Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Apoda limacodes; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; the Festoon.

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).