RESEARCH ARTICLE A partial genome assembly of the miniature parasitoid wasp, Megaphragma amalphitanum 1,2☯ 2,3☯ 4 Fedor S. Sharko , Artem V. NedoluzhkoID *, Brandon M. LêID , Svetlana V. Tsygankova2, Eugenia S. Boulygina2, Sergey M. Rastorguev2, Alexey S. Sokolov1, 4 1 5 6 Fernando RodriguezID , Alexander M. Mazur , Alexey A. Polilov , Richard BentonID , Michael B. Evgen'ev7, Irina R. Arkhipova4, Egor B. Prokhortchouk1,5*, Konstantin G. Skryabin1,2,5² 1 Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 2 National Research Center ªKurchatov Instituteº, Moscow, Russia, 3 Nord University, a1111111111 Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Bodø, Norway, 4 Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative a1111111111 Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of a1111111111 America, 5 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, Russia, 6 Center for a1111111111 Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, a1111111111 7 Institute of Molecular Biology RAS, Moscow, Russia ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. ² Deceased. *
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[email protected] (EP) OPEN ACCESS Citation: Sharko FS, Nedoluzhko AV, Lê BM, Abstract Tsygankova SV, Boulygina ES, Rastorguev SM, et al. (2019) A partial genome assembly of the Body size reduction, also known as miniaturization, is an important evolutionary process that miniature parasitoid wasp, Megaphragma affects a number of physiological and phenotypic traits and helps animals conquer new eco- amalphitanum. PLoS ONE 14(12): e0226485. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226485 logical niches. However, this process is poorly understood at the molecular level.