The genome sequence of the Grey Pine Carpet, Thera obeliscata (Hübner, 1787)

David C Lees; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20005.1

The genome sequence of the Grey Pine Carpet, Thera obeliscata (Hübner, 1787)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Sep 19:8:408. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20005.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

David C Lees¹; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliation

¹ Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Thera obeliscata (the Grey Pine Carpet; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae). The genome sequence is 404.7 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.5 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Grey Pine Carpet; Lepidoptera; Thera obeliscata; 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).