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James McCulloch1,2, ,
1University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
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Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a male specimen of Philophylla caesio (tephritid fly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Tephritidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 777.43 megabases. Most of the assembly (98.51%) is scaffolded into 6 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 19.03 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 31,396 protein-coding genes.
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