Melitaea cinxia (Glanville fritillary) Assembly and Gene Annotation
About Melitaea cinxia
Melitaea cinxia, the Glanville Fritillary, is a member of the Nymphalidae, the largest butterfly family. Named after a 17th century English lepidopterist, Lady Eleanor Glanville, its range in the UK is now restricted to the Isle of Wight, and although distributed widely across Europe, North Africa and Asia, populations are reportedly in decline. The spatially separated M. cinxia populations in the Ă…land Islands, Finland, have been used to study the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of habitat fragmentation.
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Assembly
The Melitaea cinxia genome was assembled by the Metapopulation
Research
Group
(MRG) at the University of Helsinki [1]. The MelCinx1.0 assembly in
Ensembl Metazoa consists of 8,260 scaffolds and a mitochondrial
chromosome. A
"superscaffold
" assembly, with 1,453 superscaffolds
covering 72% of the genome is also available on the MRG
website.
Both scaffolds and superscaffolds have been assigned to chromosomes, and
mappings are provided by the
MRG.
Annotation
Protein coding and non-coding RNA genes were annotated by the same group responsible for the assembly [1]. Ensembl Metazoa displays version 1.1 of the gene set, which includes over 500 community annotated gene models and descriptions.
References
- The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and
reveals selective chromosomal fusions in
Lepidoptera.
Ahola V, Lehtonen R, Somervuo P, Salmela L, Koskinen P, Rastas P, Vlimki N, Paulin L, Kvist J, Wahlberg N et al. 2014. Nature Communications. 5:4737.
More information
General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.
Statistics
Summary
Assembly | MelCinx1.0, INSDC Assembly GCA_000716385.1, |
Database version | 111.1 |
Golden Path Length | 389,907,520 |
Genebuild by | Glanville Fritillary Butterfly Genome Project |
Genebuild method | Import |
Data source | Glanville Fritillary Butterfly Genome Project |
Gene counts
Coding genes | 16,639 |
Non coding genes | 566 |
Small non coding genes | 563 |
Long non coding genes | 3 |
Gene transcripts | 17,244 |