The genome sequence of the Shoulder-striped Wainscot moth, Leucania comma Linnaeus, 1761

Stephanie Holt; Laura Sivess; Inez Januszczak; Gavin R Broad; Chris Fletcher; Denise C Wawman; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23326.1

The genome sequence of the Shoulder-striped Wainscot moth, Leucania comma Linnaeus, 1761

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Nov 5:9:652. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23326.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
² University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Leucania comma (the Shoulder-striped Wainscot moth; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae). The genome sequence spans 751.70 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 32 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z and W sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.37 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 12,477 protein-coding genes.

Keywords: Lepidoptera; Leucania comma; Shoulder-striped Wainscot moth; chromosomal; genome sequence.

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 ].