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. 2024 Feb 19:9:67.
doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20654.1. eCollection 2024.

The genome sequence of a hoverfly, Merodon equestris (Fabricius, 1794)

Olga Sivell  1 , Liam M Crowley  2 ; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium
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The genome sequence of a hoverfly, Merodon equestris (Fabricius, 1794)

Olga Sivell et al. Wellcome Open Res. .

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Merodon equestris (hoverfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae). The genome sequence is 873.0 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 6 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.95 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Diptera; Merodon equestris; chromosomal; genome sequence; hoverfly.

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests were disclosed.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Merodon equestris (Fabricius, 1794), specimen used for genome sequencing (NHMUK014452805) a) body in latero-ventral view, head in ventral view; b) body in dorsal view, head in anterior view.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Genome assembly of Merodon equestris, idMerEque2.1: metrics.
The BlobToolKit Snailplot shows N50 metrics and BUSCO gene completeness. The main plot is divided into 1,000 size-ordered bins around the circumference with each bin representing 0.1% of the 872,988,745 bp assembly. The distribution of scaffold lengths is shown in dark grey with the plot radius scaled to the longest scaffold present in the assembly (262,796,939 bp, shown in red). Orange and pale-orange arcs show the N50 and N90 scaffold lengths (129,753,689 and 123,427,599 bp), respectively. The pale grey spiral shows the cumulative scaffold count on a log scale with white scale lines showing successive orders of magnitude. The blue and pale-blue area around the outside of the plot shows the distribution of GC, AT and N percentages in the same bins as the inner plot. A summary of complete, fragmented, duplicated and missing BUSCO genes in the diptera_odb10 set is shown in the top right. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idMerEque2_1/dataset/idMerEque2_1/snail.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Genome assembly of Merodon equestris, idMerEque2.1: BlobToolKit GC-coverage plot.
Scaffolds are coloured by phylum. Circles are sized in proportion to scaffold length. Histograms show the distribution of scaffold length sum along each axis. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idMerEque2_1/dataset/idMerEque2_1/blob.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. Genome assembly of Merodon equestris, idMerEque2.1: BlobToolKit cumulative sequence plot.
The grey line shows cumulative length for all scaffolds. Coloured lines show cumulative lengths of scaffolds assigned to each phylum using the buscogenes taxrule. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idMerEque2_1/dataset/idMerEque2_1/cumulative.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.. Genome assembly of Merodon equestris, idMerEque2.1: Hi-C contact map of the idMerEque2.1 assembly, visualised using HiGlass.
Chromosomes are shown in order of size from left to right and top to bottom. An interactive version of this figure may be viewed at https://genome-note-higlass.tol.sanger.ac.uk/l/?d=GJMrxZniSRaNqvLTHHNs2w.
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