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Douglas Boyes1, ,
1UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|September 28, 2023
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Macaria notata (the peacock moth; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae). The genome sequence is 394 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.98%) is scaffolded into 29 chromosomal pseudomolecules with the Z sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length.
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