The genome sequence of the White-barred Knot-horn, Elegia similella (Zincken, 1818)

James Hammond; 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.21213.1

The genome sequence of the White-barred Knot-horn, Elegia similella (Zincken, 1818)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Apr 12:9:186. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21213.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

James Hammond¹; 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

Affiliation

¹ University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Elegia similella (the White-barred Knot-horn; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Pyralidae). The genome sequence is 780.4 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.3 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 18,805 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Elegia similella; Lepidoptera; White-barred Knot-horn; chromosomal; genome sequence.

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).