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The genome sequence of the dumpy grass hoverfly, Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus, 1758)
William Hawkes1, Karl Wotton1,
1Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|March 6, 2023
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Melanostoma mellinum (the dumpy grass hoverfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syriphidae). The genome sequence is 731 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.67%) is scaffolded into five chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the X and Y sex chromosomes assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 16.1 kilobases in length.
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