The genome sequence of the Nickerl's Fritillary, Melitaea aurelia Nickerl, 1850 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Yannick Chittaro, Andreas Sanchez, Kay Lucek, Charlotte J Wright, Joana I Meier, Mark L Blaxter, 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, Project Psyche Community
Abstract
Open AccessWe present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Melitaea aurelia (Nickerl's Fritillary; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 595.21 megabases and 565.99 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (99.72%) is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.17 kilobases.