Improved chromosome level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) based on SMRT Sequencing and linkage map

  1. Daniel Blande
  2. Olli-Pekka Smolander
  3. Virpi Ahola
  4. Pasi Rastas
  5. Jaakko Tanskanen
  6. Juhana I. Kammonen
  7. Vicencio Oostra
  8. Lorenzo Pellegrini
  9. Suvi Ikonen
  10. Tad Dallas
  11. Michelle F. DiLeo
  12. Anne Duplouy
  13. Ilhan Cem Duru
  14. Pauliina Halimaa
  15. Aapo Kahilainen
  16. Suyog S. Kuwar
  17. Sirpa O. Kärenlampi
  18. Elvira Lafuente
  19. Shiqi Luo
  20. Jenny Makkonen
  21. Abhilash Nair
  22. Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera
  23. Ville Pennanen
  24. Annukka Ruokolainen
  25. Tarja Sundell
  26. Arja I. Tervahauta
  27. Victoria Twort
  28. Erik van Bergen
  29. Janina Österman-Udd
  30. Lars Paulin
  31. Mikko J. Frilander
  32. Petri Auvinen
  33. Marjo Saastamoinen
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Abstract

The Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) butterfly is a long-term model system for metapopulation dynamics research in fragmented landscapes. Here, we provide a chromosome level assembly of the butterfly’s genome produced from Pacific Biosciences sequencing of a pool of males, combined with a linkage map from population crosses. The final assembly size of 484 Mb is an increase of 94 Mb on the previously published genome. Estimation of the completeness of the genome with BUSCO, indicates that the genome contains 93 - 95% of the BUSCO genes in complete and single copies. We predicted 14,830 gene models using the MAKER pipeline and manually curated 1,232 of these gene models. The genome and its annotated gene models are a valuable resource for future comparative genomics, molecular biology, transcriptome and genetics studies on this species.

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