Genomic resources forGoniozus legneri,Aleochara bilineataandPaykullia maculata, representing three independent origins of the parasitoid lifestyle in insects

Abstract

AbstractParasitoid insects are important model systems for a multitude of biological research topics and widely used as biological control agents against insect pests. While the parasitoid lifestyle has evolved numerous times in different insect groups, research has focused almost exclusively on Hymenoptera from the parasitica clade. The genomes of several members of this group have been sequenced, but no genomic resources are available from any of the other, independent evolutionary origins of the parasitoid lifestyle. Our aim here was to develop genomic resources for three parasitoid insects outside the parasitica. We present draft genome assemblies forGoniozus legneri, a parasitoid Hymenopteran more closely related to the non-parasitoid wasps and bees than to the parasitica wasps, the Coleopteran parasitoidAleochara bilineataand the Dipteran parasitoidPaykullia maculata.The genome assemblies are fragmented, but complete in terms of gene content. We also provide preliminary structural annotations. We anticipate that these genomic resources will be valuable for testing the generality of findings obtained from parasitica wasps in future comparative studies.Data availabilityThe Whole Genome Shotgun projects have been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accessions NCVS00000000 (G. legneri), NBZA00000000 (A. bilineata) and NDXZ00000000 (P. maculata).The versions described in this paper are versions NCVS01000000, NBZA01000000 and NDXZ01000000, respectively. Mapped reads and genome annotations are available throughhttp://parasitoids.labs.vu.nl/parasitoids/. This website also includes genome browsers and viroblast instances for each genome.