Meridia Jane Bryant, Asher M Coello, Adam M Glendening, Samuel A Hilliman, Carolina Fernanda Jara, Samuel S Pring, Aviel Rodriguez Rivera, Jennifer Santiago Membreño, Lisa Nigro, Nicole Pauloski, Matthew R Graham, Teisha King, Elizabeth L Jockusch, Rachel J O'Neill, Jill L Wegrzyn, Carlos E Santibáñez-López, Cynthia N Webster
Over 400 million years old, scorpions represent an ancient group of arachnids and one of the first animals to adapt to life on land. Presently, the lack of available genomes within scorpions hinders research on their evolution. This study leverages ultra-long nanopore sequencing and Pore-C to generate the first chromosome level assembly and annotation for the desert hairy scorpion, Hadrurus arizonensis. The assembled genome is 2.23 Gb in size with an N50 of 280 Mb. Pore-C scaffolding re-oriented 99.6% of bases into nine chromosomes and BUSCO identified 998 (98...
May 3, 2024: Genome Biology and Evolution