Long read genome assembly of Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) an emerging model for the evolution of deimatic displays.

"data availability pacbio hifi reads and genome assembly described in this work are available at ncbi under the bioproject number prjna987151 and biosample accession samn35889979.; the whole genome shotgun project has been deposited at ddbj/ena/genbank under the accession jaudjh000000000 . the blobtools contamination check output and braker2 annotation are available on dryad ( https://datadryad org/stash/share/abzgdw3kq56uteqny_tbqhyyc8hvf5-uvetbg028mdu ). data availability pacbio hifi reads and genome assembly described in this work are available at ncbi under the bioproject number prjna987151"

"we limited the minimum alignment length displayed in the synteny plot to 300 bp using the delta-filter utility in mumer (-l 300) and plotted synteny using a custom r script available from .; the code used in this study is available at https://github com/chelskoj/aio/blob/main/automeris_assembly_annotation supplemental material available at g3 online. the code used in this study is available at https://github com/chelskoj/aio/blob/main/automeris_assembly_annotation supplemental material available at g3 online."

"Conflicts of interest The author(s) declare no conflicts of interest."

"Funding This study was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship grant #00130513 to CS and in part by NSF EF No. #2217159."