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Darren J Mann1, Liam M Crowley2, Chris Fletcher3
1Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England, UK.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Aphodius fimetarius (Common dung beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 1 343.38 megabases. Most of the assembly (72.44%) is scaffolded into 11 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X and Y sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 22.01 kilobases. This assembly was generated as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, which produces reference genomes for eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland.
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