Himanshu Dubey, A R Pradeep, Kartik Neog, Rajal Debnath, P J Aneesha, Suraj Kumar Shah, Indumathi Kamatchi, K M Ponnuvel, A Ramesha, Kunjupillai Vijayan, Upendra Nongthomba, Utpal Bora, Sivaprasad Vankadara, K M VijayaKumari, Kallare P Arunkumar
Muga silkworm (Antheraea assamensis), one of the economically important wild silkmoths, is unique among saturniid silkmoths. It is confined to only the North-eastern part of India. The muga silk has the highest value among the other silks. Unlike other silkmoths, A. assamensis has a low chromosome number (n = 15), and ZZ/ZO sex chromosome system. Here, we report the first high-quality draft genome of A. assamensis, assembled by employing the Illumina and PacBio sequencing platforms. The assembled genome of A...
April 8, 2024: Genomics