Two chromosome-level genome assemblies of galling aphids Slavum lentiscoides and Chaetogeoica ovagalla

Abstract

Abstract Slavum lentiscoides and Chaetogeoica ovagalla are two aphid species from the subtribe Fordina of Fordini within the subfamily Eriosomatinae, and they produce galls on their primary host plants Pistacia. We assembled chromosome-level genomes of these two species using Nanopore long-read sequencing and Hi-C technology. A 332 Mb genome assembly of S. lentiscoides with a scaffold N50 of 19.77 Mb, including 11,747 genes, and a 289 Mb genome assembly of C. ovagalla with a scaffold N50 of 11.85 Mb, containing 14,492 genes, were obtained. The Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) benchmark of the two genome assemblies reached 93.7% (91.9% single-copy) and 97.0% (95.3% single-copy), respectively. The high-quality genome assemblies in our study provide valuable resources for future genomic research of galling aphids.