Complete Genome Assemblies for Three Variants of the Wolbachia Endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster

Abstract

Here, we report genome assemblies for three strains of Wolbachia pipientis , assembled from unenriched, unfiltered long-read shotgun sequencing data of geographically distinct strains of Drosophila melanogaster . Our simple methodology can be applied to long-read data sets of other Wolbachia -infected species with limited Wolbachia -host lateral gene transfers to produce complete assemblies for this important model symbiont. Here, we report genome assemblies for three strains of Wolbachia pipientis , assembled from unenriched, unfiltered long-read shotgun sequencing data of geographically distinct strains of Drosophila melanogaster . Our simple methodology can be applied to long-read data sets of other Wolbachia -infected species with limited Wolbachia -host lateral gene transfers to produce complete assemblies for this important model symbiont.