The genome sequence of the King Ragworm, Alitta virens (Sars, 1835)

Chris Fletcher; Lyndall Pereira da Conceicoa; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19642.1

The genome sequence of the King Ragworm, Alitta virens (Sars, 1835)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Jul 11:8:297. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19642.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Chris Fletcher¹, Lyndall Pereira da Conceicoa²; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
² Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual Alitta virens (the King Ragworm; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Nereididae). The genome sequence is 671.2 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 14 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.83 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Alitta virens; King Ragworm; Phyllodocida; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom