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Ryan Mitchell1, ,
1Independent researcher, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland.
Wellcome Open Research
|November 18, 2024
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We present a genome assembly from an individual female picture-winged fly, Melieria crassipennis (tArthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Ulidiidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 414.00 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 4 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.77 kilobases in length.
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