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Olga Sivell1, Ryan Mitchell2, Duncan Sivell1
1Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|September 5, 2025
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female cranefly, Tipula helvola (Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Tipulidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 1,204.70 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 4 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.48 kilobases in length.
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