Chromosome-level genome assembly of Megachile lagopoda (Linnaeus, 1761) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Dan Zhang; Jianfeng Jin; Zeqing Niu; Michael C Orr; Feng Zhang; Rafael R Ferrari; Qingtao Wu; Qingsong Zhou; Wa Da; Arong Luo; Chaodong Zhu

doi:10.1038/s41597-024-04028-y

Chromosome-level genome assembly of Megachile lagopoda (Linnaeus, 1761) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Sci Data. 2024 Oct 29;11(1):1171. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-04028-y.

Authors

Dan Zhang^{1

2}, Jianfeng Jin³, Zeqing Niu⁴, Michael C Orr⁵, Feng Zhang³, Rafael R Ferrari^{2

6}, Qingtao Wu², Qingsong Zhou², Wa Da⁷, Arong Luo^{8

9}, Chaodong Zhu^{2

10

11}

Affiliations

¹ Characteristic Laboratory of Forensic Science in Universities of Shandong Province, Shandong University of Political Science and Law, Jinan, P. R. China.
² Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.
³ Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P. R. China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China. niuzq@ioz.ac.cn.
⁵ Entomologie, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁶ Environmental Science Training Center, Federal University of Southern Bahia, Porto Seguro, Brazil.
⁷ Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology, Tibet, P. R. China.
⁸ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China. luoar@ioz.ac.cn.
⁹ International College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China. luoar@ioz.ac.cn.
¹⁰ College of Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.
¹¹ State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.

Abstract

Megachile is one of the largest bee genera, including nearly 1,500 species, but very few chromosome-level assemblies exist for this group or the family Megachilidae. Here, we report the chromosome-level genome assembly of Megachile lagopoda collected from Xizang, China. Using PacBio CLR long reads and Hi-C data, we assembled a genome of 256.83 Mb with 96.08% of the assembly located on 16 chromosomes. Our assembly contains 266 scaffolds, with a scaffold N50 length of 15.6 Mb, and BUSCO completeness of 99.20%. We masked 27.10% (69.61 Mb) of the assembly as repetitive elements, identified 459 non-coding RNAs, and predicted 11,157 protein-coding genes. This high-quality genome of M. lagopoda represents an important step forward for our knowledge of megachilid genomics and bee evolution overall.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Bees / genetics
China
Chromosomes, Insect / genetics
Genome, Insect*

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