Table 1. Comparison of Vespidae and honeybee genome assembles. 1. Apart from our Vespula assemblies, repeat content was counted from lowercase nucleotides in published assemblies.
| Species | Sequencing Strategy | Total Sequence | Largest | Scaffolds/ contigs | N50 length | Ns | Gaps | Repeats1 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vespula vulgaris | Illumina + Hi-C | 176,275,134 | 19,426,332 | 35 | 8,304,510 | 4,147,610 | 49,679 | 17.12 |
| Vespula germanica | Illumina + Hi-C | 178,312,246 | 19,524,135 | 133 | 8,396,154 | 1,783,864 | 18,963 | 18.89 |
| Vespula pensylvanica | Illumina + Hi-C | 179,379,562 | 19,704,315 | 225 | 8,532,720 | 444,951 | 4,987 | 19.15 |
| Polistes canadensis | Illumina | 211,202,212 | 3,185,661 | 3,836 | 521,566 | 14,106,256 | 15,755 | 41.60 |
| Polistes dominula | Illumina | 208,026,220 | 7,126,315 | 1,483 | 1,625,592 | 7,426,626 | 14,286 | 44.50 |
| Polistes fuscatus | PacBio Sequel + Illumina + Dovetail | 219,116,742 | 19,629,704 | 187 | 9,116,088 | 4,436,170 | 1,204 | 41.79 |
| Polistes metricus | PacBio Sequel + Illumina | 219,838,961 | 15,979,625 | 216 | 4,634,047 | 1,082,619 | 459 | 44.48 |
| Polistes dorsalis | 10x Genomics | 209,288,276 | 20,305,868 | 5,129 | 5,372,633 | 4,771,923 | 8,816 | 42.35 |
| Apis mellifera 4.5 | Sanger + SOLiD + 454 | 250,287,000 | 29,893,408 | 5,321 | 13,219,345 | 21,165,099 | 12,690 | 5.28 |
| Apis mellifera HAv3.1 | PacBio + 10x Chromium + BioNano + Hi-C | 225,250,884 | 27,754,200 | 177 | 13,619,445 | 1,313,614 | 51 | 44.63 |