RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Improved chromosome level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (<em>Melitaea cinxia</em>) based on SMRT Sequencing and linkage map
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.11.03.364950
DO 10.1101/2020.11.03.364950
A1 Daniel Blande
A1 Olli-Pekka Smolander
A1 Virpi Ahola
A1 Pasi Rastas
A1 Jaakko Tanskanen
A1 Juhana I. Kammonen
A1 Vicencio Oostra
A1 Lorenzo Pellegrini
A1 Suvi Ikonen
A1 Tad Dallas
A1 Michelle F. DiLeo
A1 Anne Duplouy
A1 Ilhan Cem Duru
A1 Pauliina Halimaa
A1 Aapo Kahilainen
A1 Suyog S. Kuwar
A1 Sirpa O. Kärenlampi
A1 Elvira Lafuente
A1 Shiqi Luo
A1 Jenny Makkonen
A1 Abhilash Nair
A1 Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera
A1 Ville Pennanen
A1 Annukka Ruokolainen
A1 Tarja Sundell
A1 Arja I. Tervahauta
A1 Victoria Twort
A1 Erik van Bergen
A1 Janina Österman-Udd
A1 Lars Paulin
A1 Mikko J. Frilander
A1 Petri Auvinen
A1 Marjo Saastamoinen
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/11/04/2020.11.03.364950.abstract
AB 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.