Supporting data for "Improved chromosome level genome assembly of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (<i>Melitaea cinxia</i>) based on SMRT Sequencing and linkage map."

The Glanville fritillary (<i>Melitaea cinxia</i>) butterfly is a model system for metapopulation dynamics research in fragmented landscapes. Here, we provide a chromosome level assembly of the butterflys genome produced from Pacific Biosciences sequencing of a pool of males, combined with a linkage map from population crosses. The final assembly size of 484 Mb is an increase of 94 Mb on the previously published genome. Estimation of the completeness of the genome with Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) indicates that the genome contains 93 - 95% of the BUSCO genes in complete and single copies. We predicted 14,810 genes using the MAKER pipeline and manually curated 1,232 of these gene models. The genome and its annotated gene models are a valuable resource for future comparative genomics, molecular biology, transcriptome and genetics studies on this species.