The genome sequence of the Argent & Sable moth, Rheumaptera hastata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
Vlad Dincă, Marko Mutanen, Charlotte J. Wright, Joana I. Meier, Mark L. Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Project Psyche Community, Laura Jimenez Burney, Jinmu Kim, Xue Qing · 2026
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Description
Vlad Dincă leads a large team presenting, in 2026, the full genome of the Argent and Sable moth. The moth lives in bogs and damp mountain woods across northern lands, and its caterpillars feed inside spun leaf bags on blueberry kin and other shrubs. The team sequenced one male moth caught in North Karelia, Finland. Part of a wider project on European butterflies and moths, the work resolves both copies of the genome.
Each copy runs to roughly 590 million bases, and nearly all of the first copy sits in 31 chromosome sized pieces, including the Z sex chromosome. The small mitochondrial genome was also completed. Dincă and the team offer the assembly as a base for studies of moth evolution and survival as bog habitats shrink.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vlad Dincă, Marko Mutanen, Charlotte J. Wright, Joana I. Meier, Mark L. Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, Project Psyche Community, Laura Jimenez Burney, Jinmu Kim, Xue Qing |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31933 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |