The genome sequence of the Hungarian meadow viper, Vipera ursinii rakosiensis Méhely, 1893

Bálint Halpern; Judit Vörös; Ann M Mc Cartney; Giulio Formenti; Alice Mouton; 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

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22694.1

The genome sequence of the Hungarian meadow viper, Vipera ursinii rakosiensis Méhely, 1893

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Jul 26:9:404. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22694.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Bálint Halpern^{1

2

3}, Judit Vörös^{1

4}, Ann M Mc Cartney⁵, Giulio Formenti⁶, Alice Mouton⁷; 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

Affiliations

¹ MME Birdlife Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.
² Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, ELTE-Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
³ HUN-REN - ELTE - MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary.
⁴ Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
⁵ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
⁶ The Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ SEED Arlon Campus, University of Liège, Arlon, Belgium.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Vipera ursinii rakosiensis (the Hungarian meadow viper; Chordata; Lepidosauria; Squamata; Viperidae). The genome sequence is 1,625.0 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 19 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the W and Z sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.38 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Hungarian meadow viper; Squamata; Vipera ursinii rakosiensis; chromosomal; genome sequence.

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 ]. The sample collection in Hungary and the lab work was funded by EU LIFE-Fund (HUNVIPHABLIFE18 NAT/HU/000799). Bálint Halpern was supported by the KDP-2021 program of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (KDP_2021_ELTE_C1791523).