De Novo Genome Assembly and Annotation for the Synanthropic Webbing Clothes Moth (Tineola bisselliella): A Globally Distributed, Economically Important Pest.

ABSTRACT: Tineola bisselliella, the webbing clothes moth, is an economically important, globally distributed synanthropic pest species and member of the basal moth lineage Tineidae. These moths are facultatively keratinophagous, and their larvae can cause extensive damage, particularly to clothing, textiles, and museum specimens. Despite the economic and phylogenetic importance of T. bisselliella, there is a lack of quality genomic resources for this, or for other species within the Tineidae family. The T. bisselliella genome assembly presented here consists of 30 pseudochromosomes (29 autosomes and 1 Z chromosome) produced using synteny alignment of a preliminary contig-level assembly (256 contigs) to a closely related species, Tinea pellionella. The resulting final pseudochromosome-level assembly

SUBMITTER: Alqassar JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11662235 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature