High-Quality Assemblies for Three Invasive Social Wasps from the Vespula Genus
October 2020
Publication: High-Quality Assemblies for Three Invasive Social Wasps from the Vespula Genus
Author(s): Thomas Harrop, Joseph Guhlin, Gemma McLaughlin
We sequenced and annotated the genomes of the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris), German wasp (Vespula germanica), and the western yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica). Our chromosome-level Vespula assemblies each contain 176–179 Mb of total sequence assembled into 25 scaffolds, with 10–200 unanchored scaffolds, and 16,566–18,948 genes. We annotated gene sets relevant to the applied management of invasive wasp populations, including genes associated with spermatogenesis and development, pesticide resistance, olfactory receptors, immunity and venom.