Nuclear genome assembly of Leucinodes orbonalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) collected from the Philippines.

ABSTRACT: The eggplant fruit and shoot borer (Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée) is a devastating lepidopteran pest of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), causing significant economic losses. Reference genomes aid in understanding insect pest biology and can guide pest management programs. For eggplant fruit and shoot borer, however, genomic resources are scarce; hence, this study presents an annotated genome assembly of the Philippine eggplant fruit and shoot borer genome using Illumina short reads. The 480,399,388 bp long assembly contained 31,568 contigs with an N50 of 204,698 bp and a BUSCO score of 96.5%. Annotation of repeat elements indicates that the eggplant fruit and shoot borer genome comprises 38.50% interspersed repeats, which are mostly unclassified repeats. Functional RNA annotation reveal

SUBMITTER: Despabiladeras JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12205365 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature