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Alex Hayward1, Roger Vila2, Konrad Lohse3
1College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|June 8, 2022
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Pyrgus malvae (the grizzled skipper; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). The genome sequence is 725 megabases in span. The majority (99.97%) of the assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the Z sex chromosome assembled.
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