The genome sequence of the Sprawler moth, Asteroscopus sphinx Hufnagel, 1766

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.22920.2

The genome sequence of the Sprawler moth, Asteroscopus sphinx Hufnagel, 1766

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Oct 11:9:505. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22920.2. 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 Asteroscopus sphinx (the Sprawler moth; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 857.30 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 32 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome and a putative B chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.35 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Asteroscopus sphinx; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; the Sprawler moth.

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 ].