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The genome sequence of the heath fritillary, Melitaea athalia (Rottemburg, 1775)
Alex Hayward1, Roger Vila2, Dominik R Laetsch3
1University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|February 9, 2022
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Melitaea athalia (also known as Mellicta athalia; the heath fritillary; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 610 megabases in span. In total, 99.98% of the assembly is scaffolded into 32 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the W and Z sex chromosome assembled. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl has identified 12,824 protein coding genes.

