Introduction
The Papilionidae include ~550 extant species in 31 genera (Reed and Sperling 2006). The species in this family are often large and colorful, and can be found on every continent except Antarctica. We present the assembled genome sequences from 9 extant species. Tissue samples were obtained from single wild-caught specimens. More detailed information about the specimen used for each species can be found in the Biosample linked to each genome assembly in Genbank (Table 1).
Methods
DNA extraction was performed using the Qiagen DNAeasy genomic extraction kit using the standard process. A paired-end sequencing library was constructed using the Illumina TruSeq kit according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The library was sequenced on an Illumina Hi-Seq platform in paired-end, 2 × 150 bp format. The resulting fastq files were trimmed of adapter/primer sequence and low-quality regions with Trimmomatic v0.33 using default settings (Bolger, Lohse, and Usadel 2014). The trimmed reads were assembled by SPAdes v2.5 (Bankevich et al. 2012) followed by a finishing step using Zanfona (Kieras, O’Neill, and Pirro 2021), with default settings used for both.
Results and Data Availability
Funding
Funding was provided by Iridian Genomes, grant# IRGEN_RG_2021-1345 Genomic Studies of Eukaryotic Taxa.