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Rearing and Long-Term Maintenance of Eristalis tenax Hoverflies for Research Studies
Published on: May 19, 2018
The genome sequence of a hoverfly , Neoascia tenur (Harris, 1780) (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Liam M Crowley1, Steven Falk2, Finley Hutchinson3
1University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|July 2, 2026
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual femal Neoascia tenur (hoverfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 491.77 megabases. Most of the assembly (97.23%) is scaffolded into 4 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 16.31 kilobases. This assembly was generated as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, which produces genomes for eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland.

