TY - JOUR T1 - Improved chromosome level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (<em>Melitaea cinxia</em>) based on SMRT Sequencing and linkage map JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2020.11.03.364950 SP - 2020.11.03.364950 AU - Daniel Blande AU - Olli-Pekka Smolander AU - Virpi Ahola AU - Pasi Rastas AU - Jaakko Tanskanen AU - Juhana I. Kammonen AU - Vicencio Oostra AU - Lorenzo Pellegrini AU - Suvi Ikonen AU - Tad Dallas AU - Michelle F. DiLeo AU - Anne Duplouy AU - Ilhan Cem Duru AU - Pauliina Halimaa AU - Aapo Kahilainen AU - Suyog S. Kuwar AU - Sirpa O. Kärenlampi AU - Elvira Lafuente AU - Shiqi Luo AU - Jenny Makkonen AU - Abhilash Nair AU - Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera AU - Ville Pennanen AU - Annukka Ruokolainen AU - Tarja Sundell AU - Arja I. Tervahauta AU - Victoria Twort AU - Erik van Bergen AU - Janina Österman-Udd AU - Lars Paulin AU - Mikko J. Frilander AU - Petri Auvinen AU - Marjo Saastamoinen Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/11/04/2020.11.03.364950.abstract N2 - The Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) butterfly is a long-term model system for metapopulation dynamics research in fragmented landscapes. Here, we provide a chromosome level assembly of the butterfly’s genome produced from Pacific Biosciences sequencing of a pool of males, combined with a linkage map from population crosses. The final assembly size of 484 Mb is an increase of 94 Mb on the previously published genome. Estimation of the completeness of the genome with BUSCO, indicates that the genome contains 93 - 95% of the BUSCO genes in complete and single copies. We predicted 14,830 gene models using the MAKER pipeline and manually curated 1,232 of these gene models. The genome and its annotated gene models are a valuable resource for future comparative genomics, molecular biology, transcriptome and genetics studies on this species.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -