Wellcome Open Research (Mar 2024)
A chromosomal reference genome sequence for the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, Giles, 1902, Ifakara strain [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
- Ying Sims,
- Shane A. McCarthy,
- Damon-Lee B. Pointon,
- Jonathan MD Wood,
- James W. Torrance,
- Harriet Johnson,
- Ksenia Krasheninnikova,
- Haynes Heaton,
- Joanna Collins,
- Alan Tracey,
- Mara Lawniczak,
- Marcela Uliano Da Silva,
- Katharina von Wyschetzki,
- Alex Makunin,
- Daniel E. Neafsey,
- Mara K.N. Lawniczak,
- Tibebu Habtewold,
- Mgeni Mohamed Tambwe,
- Martin Wagah,
- Nikolai Windbichler,
- Sarah Moore,
- Sarah E. Pelan,
- George Christophides
Affiliations
- Ying Sims
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Shane A. McCarthy
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Damon-Lee B. Pointon
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Jonathan MD Wood
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- James W. Torrance
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Harriet Johnson
- ORCiD
- Scientific Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Ksenia Krasheninnikova
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Haynes Heaton
- CSSE, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
- Joanna Collins
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Alan Tracey
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Mara Lawniczak
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Marcela Uliano Da Silva
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Katharina von Wyschetzki
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Alex Makunin
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Daniel E. Neafsey
- Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Mara K.N. Lawniczak
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Tibebu Habtewold
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Mgeni Mohamed Tambwe
- Vector Control Product Testing Unit, Ifakara Health institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania
- Martin Wagah
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Nikolai Windbichler
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Sarah Moore
- ORCiD
- Vector Control Product Testing Unit, Ifakara Health institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania
- Sarah E. Pelan
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- George Christophides
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8
Abstract
We present a genome assembly from an individual female Anopheles gambiae (the malaria mosquito; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae), Ifakara strain. The genome sequence is 264 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into three chromosomal pseudomolecules with the X sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length.
