Genomic Features of the Damselfly Calopteryx splendens Representing a Sister Clade to Most Insect Orders.

ABSTRACT: Insects comprise the most diverse and successful animal group with over one million described species that are found in almost every terrestrial and limnic habitat, with many being used as important models in genetics, ecology, and evolutionary research. Genome sequencing projects have greatly expanded the sampling of species from many insect orders, but genomic resources for species of certain insect lineages have remained relatively limited to date. To address this paucity, we sequenced the genome of the banded demoiselle, Calopteryx splendens, a damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera) belonging to Palaeoptera, the clade containing the first winged insects. The 1.6 Gbp C. splendens draft genome assembly is one of the largest insect genomes sequenced to date and encodes a predicted set of 22,523 p

SUBMITTER: Ioannidis P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381652 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature