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The genome sequence of a muscid fly, Lispocephala verna (Fabricius, 1794) (Diptera: Muscidae)
Liam M Crowley1, Steven Falk2, Finley Hutchinson3
1University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Lispocephala verna (muscid fly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Muscidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 987.71 megabases and 934.62 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (95.8%) is scaffolded into 5 chromosomal pseudomolecules. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 16.34 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.

