The genome sequence of a chalcid wasp, Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (Westwood, 1833)

Gavin R Broad; Chris Fletcher; Inez Januszczak; 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.19764.1

The genome sequence of a chalcid wasp, Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (Westwood, 1833)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Oct 12:8:440. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19764.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Gavin R Broad¹, Chris Fletcher¹, Inez Januszczak¹; 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 female Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (a chalcid wasp; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Pteromalidae). The genome sequence is 1,010.0 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 5 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 24.4 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Gastracanthus pulcherrimus; Hymenoptera; chalcid wasp; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom