The genome sequence of the sallow kitten, Furcula furcula (Clerck, 1759)

Douglas Boyes; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods 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; Brandon Parker; David Plotkin; Akito Y Kawahara; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18112.1

The genome sequence of the sallow kitten, Furcula furcula (Clerck, 1759)

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Sep 12:7:229. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18112.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Douglas Boyes¹; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods 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; Brandon Parker², David Plotkin², Akito Y Kawahara²; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
² McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Furcula furcula (the sallow kitten; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Notodontidae). The genome sequence is 736 megabases in span. The entire assembly (100%) is scaffolded into 29 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the Z sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 17.2 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Furcula furcula; Lepidoptera; chromosomal; genome sequence; sallow kitten.

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).