Hawaiian Danaus plexippus genome sequencing

In order to track the genetic control of the Danaus plexippus warning coloration, genomic DNA from 12 Hawaiian Danaus plexippus individuals (5 white morphs and 7 orange morphs) was extracted. Illumina paired-end libraries were constructed using Illumina Truseq protocol and sequenced with an Illumina Hiseq 2000. Low quality data were filtered from the raw reads and only high quality reads were kept for downstream analyses.