The genome sequence of the thistle gall fly, Urophora cardui (Linnaeus 1758)

Leila Franzen; Liam M Crowley; Nathan Medd; 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.22919.1

The genome sequence of the thistle gall fly, Urophora cardui (Linnaeus 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Sep 3:9:502. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22919.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Leila Franzen¹, Liam M Crowley², Nathan Medd³; 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 University of Bath, Bath, England, UK.
² University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
³ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female thistle gall fly, Urophora cardui (Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Tephritidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 837.80 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 6 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 20.37 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Diptera; Urophora cardui; chromosomal; genome sequence; thistle gall fly.

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 ].