Genome assembly and annotation of the parasitoid jewel wasp Nasonia oneida

The jewel wasp, Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), is a well-established model system for evolutionary genetics and host-microbial interactions. Here, we present the genome of N. oneida, a species lacking prior genomic characterization, using 10× Genomics linked-read (400× coverage), Illumina short-read (120× coverage), and transcriptome data (30× coverage). The assembled genome size is 267 Mb, comprising 4,675 scaffolds, with a scaffold N50 of 1 Mb and 98.40% Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologues (BUSCOs) completeness score. Annotation revealed 32.29% (86.46 Mb) of repetitive sequences and 14,221 protein-coding genes. Comparative genomics of N. oneida with 15 other hymenopteran species validated the presence of 5,939 gene families shared among them, including 3643 single-copy and 2296 multicopy gene families. This study provides the first de novo assembly of N. oneida, providing a significant addition to the growing repertoire of molecular tools for comparative genomics and functional studies to understand the evolution of closely related species as well as the evolution of parasitic wasps.