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The genome sequence of an ichneumonid wasp, Perithous albicinctus (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
Liam M Crowley1, James McCulloch1,2, Augustijn De Ketelaere3
1University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Perithous albicinctus (ichneumonid wasp; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 383.46 megabases. Most of the assembly (97.06%) is scaffolded into 17 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 35.92 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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