The genome sequence of the variegated flesh fly, Sarcophaga variegata (Scopoli, 1763)

Steven Falk; John F Mulley; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19483.1

The genome sequence of the variegated flesh fly, Sarcophaga variegata (Scopoli, 1763)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Jun 2:8:234. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19483.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Steven Falk¹, John F Mulley²; University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Independent researcher, Kenilworth, England, UK.
² Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Sarcophaga variegata (the variegated flesh fly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Sarcophagidae). The genome sequence is 718.5 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 7 chromosomal pseudomolecules including the X and Y sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 18.7 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 16,660 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Diptera; Sarcophaga variegata; chromosomal; genome sequence; the variegated flesh fly.

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).