The genome sequence of the Scarce Cardinal Beetle, Schizotus pectinicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Richard Lyszkowski; Dmitry Telnov; Maxwell V L Barclay; Natural History Museum 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.22888.1

The genome sequence of the Scarce Cardinal Beetle, Schizotus pectinicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Sep 3:9:501. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22888.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Richard Lyszkowski¹, Dmitry Telnov^{2

3}, Maxwell V L Barclay²; Natural History Museum 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 National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
² Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
³ Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Schizotus pectinicornis (the Scarce Cardinal Beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Pyrochroidae). The genome sequence spans 181.10 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 9 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 16.59 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 12,605 protein-coding genes.

Keywords: Coleoptera; Scarce Cardinal Beetle; Schizotus pectinicornis; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom