The genome sequence of the Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus, (Esper, 1777)

Konrad Lohse; Alex Hayward; Roger Vila; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Ana Paula S Carvalho; Akito Y Kawahara; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18788.1

The genome sequence of the Large Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanus, (Esper, 1777)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Feb 14:8:75. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18788.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Konrad Lohse¹, Alex Hayward², Roger Vila³; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Ana Paula S Carvalho⁴, Akito Y Kawahara⁴; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
² College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
³ Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Ochlodes sylvanus, the Large Skipper (Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). The genome sequence is 380 megabases in span. Most of the assembly (99.97%) is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the assembled W and Z sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.1 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 13,451 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Large Skipper; Lepidoptera; Ochlodes sylvanus; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194) and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award (218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328). This work was also supported by the ERC (ModelGenom Land 757648); The Natural Environment Research Council (NE/L011522/1); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC; David Phillips Fellowship (BB/N020146/1)); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Agencia Estatal de Investigación (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033; PID2019-107078GB-I00).