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1Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|February 28, 2022
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We present a genome assembly from an individual male Xanthogramma pedissequum (Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae). The genome sequence is 977 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (95.94%) is scaffolded into six chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the X and Y sex chromosomes assembled.
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