The genome sequence of the heath fritillary, Melitaea athalia (Rottemburg, 1775) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Melitaea athalia (also known as Mellicta athalia; the heath fritillary; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The genome sequence is 610 megabases in span. In total, 99.98% of the assembly is scaffolded into 32 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the W and Z sex chromosome assembled. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl has identified 12,824 protein coding genes.

Keywords

• Melitaea athalia
• Mellicta athalia
• heath fritillary
• genome sequence
• chromosomal
• eng