The genome sequence of the Water Veneer, Acentria ephemerella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Douglas Boyes; Peter O Mulhair; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21099.1

The genome sequence of the Water Veneer, Acentria ephemerella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Mar 8:9:134. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21099.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Douglas Boyes¹, Peter O Mulhair²; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, England, UK.
² University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Acentria ephemerella (the Water Veneer; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Crambidae). The genome sequence is 340.8 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.35 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 17,748 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Acentria ephemerella; Lepidoptera; Water Veneer moth; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute [206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194] and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award [218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328 ].