Drosophila Subobscura Genome

Drosophila subobscura has long been a central model in evolutionary genetics as the chromosomal inversion system of D. subobscura represents one of the most interesting models to investigate the evolution of this type of genome rearrangement. Presently, its use is hindered by the lack of a reference genome. To overcome this limitation, here we have generated a de novo assembly of the genome of D. subobscura using PacBio long-read technology, together with the available wealth of genetic marker information, to assemble a high-quality nuclear and complete mitochondrial genome for the species. We have been able to obtain 186 validated scaffolds with a total length of 129,237 Mb and a complete 15,764 bp-long mitogenome.