The genome sequence of the peacock moth, Macaria notata (Linnaeus, 1758)

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; Christian Couch; David Plotkin; Akito Y Kawahara; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18108.1

The genome sequence of the peacock moth, Macaria notata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Sep 12:7:228. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18108.1. 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; Christian Couch², 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 and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Macaria notata (the peacock moth; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae). The genome sequence is 394 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.98%) is scaffolded into 29 chromosomal pseudomolecules with the Z sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Geometridae; Macaria notata; chromosomal; genome sequence; peacock moth.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom