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The genome sequence of the painted lady, Vanessa cardui Linnaeus 1758
Konrad Lohse1, Charlotte Wright2, Gerard Talavera3
1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edingburgh, UK.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Vanessa cardui (the painted lady; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 425 megabases in span. The majority 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 12,821 protein coding genes.
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