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. 2023 Oct 12:8:440.
doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19764.1. eCollection 2023.

The genome sequence of a chalcid wasp, Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (Westwood, 1833)

Gavin R Broad  1 , Chris Fletcher  1 , Inez Januszczak  1 ; Natural History Museum 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; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium
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The genome sequence of a chalcid wasp, Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (Westwood, 1833)

Gavin R Broad et al. Wellcome Open Res. .

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (a chalcid wasp; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Pteromalidae). The genome sequence is 1,010.0 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 5 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 24.4 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Gastracanthus pulcherrimus; Hymenoptera; chalcid wasp; chromosomal; genome sequence.

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Conflict of interest statement

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Photograph of the Gastracanthus pulcherrimus (iyGasPulc2) specimen used for genome sequencing.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Genome assembly of Gastracanthus pulcherrimus, iyGasPulc2.1: 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 1,010,024,266 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 (222,508,353 bp, shown in red). Orange and pale-orange arcs show the N50 and N90 scaffold lengths (186,761,157 and 179,352,141 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 hymenoptera_odb10 set is shown in the top right. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/iyGasPulc2.1/dataset/CASCKD01/snail.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Genome assembly of Gastracanthus pulcherrimus, iyGasPulc2.1: 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/iyGasPulc2.1/dataset/CASCKD01/blob.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. Genome assembly of Gastracanthus pulcherrimus, iyGasPulc2.1: 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/iyGasPulc2.1/dataset/CASCKD01/cumulative.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.. Genome assembly of Gastracanthus pulcherrimus, iyGasPulc2.1: Hi-C contact map of the iyGasPulc2.1 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=Yrs3ERn6RL-maDBtEFqvcA.
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