The genome sequence of the Arctic Skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771)

Konrad Lohse; Sam Ebdon; Alex Mackintosh; Simon Martin; Ilik J Saccheri; Nigel A D Bourn; Roger Vila; 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.19573.1

The genome sequence of the Arctic Skipper, Carterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Aug 30:8:369. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19573.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Konrad Lohse¹, Sam Ebdon¹, Alex Mackintosh¹, Simon Martin¹, Ilik J Saccheri², Nigel A D Bourn³, Roger Vila⁴; 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

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
² Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour,, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, UK.
³ Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, England, UK.
⁴ Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Carterocephalus palaemon (the Arctic Skipper; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). The genome sequence is 394.5 megabases in span. The whole assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.78 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 17,032 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Arctic Skipper; Carterocephalus palaemon; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom