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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
The genome sequence of the Shepherd's Fritillary, Boloria pales (Denis & Schiffermüller), 1775 (Lepidoptera:
Yannick Chittaro1, Andreas Sanchez1, Kay Lucek2
1Info fauna, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Boloria pales (Shepherd's Fritillary; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 382.99 megabases and 364.88 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (99.96%) is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.17 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 12,117 protein-coding genes.

