The genome sequence of the small nettle, Urtica urens L. (Urticaceae)

Maarten J M Christenhusz; Alex D Twyford; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Genome Acquisition Lab; Plant Genome Sizing collective; 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.23187.1

The genome sequence of the small nettle, Urtica urens L. (Urticaceae)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Nov 1:9:639. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23187.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Maarten J M Christenhusz^{1

2}, Alex D Twyford^{3

4}; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Genome Acquisition Lab; Plant Genome Sizing collective; 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 Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
² Hortus Botanicus, University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
³ The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
⁴ Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from a specimen of small nettle, Urtica urens (Streptophyta; Magnoliopsida; Rosales; Urticaceae). The genome sequence has a total length of 339.60 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 12 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial and plastid genome assemblies have lengths of 335.02 kilobases and 147.51 kilobases, respectively. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 18,378 protein-coding genes.

Keywords: Rosales; Urtica urens; chromosomal; genome sequence; small nettle.

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 ].