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Konrad Lohse1, Lars Höök2, Karin Näsvall2
1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|April 7, 2023
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Leptidea sinapis (the wood white; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Pieridae). The genome sequence is 686 megabases in span. The majority (99.99%) of the assembly is scaffolded into 48 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with three Z sex chromosomes assembled. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl has identified 14,800 protein coding genes.

