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Duncan Sivell1, ,
1Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|August 8, 2024
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Mesopsocus fuscifrons (barkfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Mesopsocidae). The genome sequence is 184.3 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 9 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 20.13 kilobases in length.
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