A chromosomal reference genome sequence for the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, Giles, 1902, Ifakara strain
Tibebu Habtewold, Martin G. Wagah, Mgeni M. Tambwe, Sarah Moore, Nikolai Windbichler, George K. Christophides, Harriet F. Johnson, Haynes Heaton, Joanna Collins, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Sarah Pelan, Damon-Lee B Pointon, Ying Sims, James Torrance, Alan Tracey, Marcela Uliano Da Silva, Jonathan Wood, Katharina von Wyschetzki, Shane McCarthy, Daniel E. Neafsey, Alex Makunin, Mara Lawniczak
Abstract
<ns4:p> We present a genome assembly from an individual female <ns4:italic>Anopheles gambiae</ns4:italic> (the malaria mosquito; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae), Ifakara strain. The genome sequence is 264 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into three chromosomal pseudomolecules with the X sex chromosome assembled. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 15.4 kilobases in length. </ns4:p>