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1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|December 12, 2022
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Boloria selene (the small pearl-bordered fritillary, also known as the silver meadow fritillary; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 400 megabases in span. The complete assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the W and Z sex chromosome assembled.
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