Thanks to my wonderful collaborators, mentors, and colleagues who supported me during this process! My Master's thesis advisor Dr. Sean Mullen (bsky-less), co-authors Dr. Hannah Aichelman and Isabel Novick (both bsky-less), my current PhD advisor @evolvwing.bsky.social, as well as many others.

In addition to our genome assembly and annotation, we preformed synteny analyses to investigate chromosome evolution. Notably, the synteny alignment with M. cinxia suggested the reduction in karyotype size in T. bisselliella is due to a whole chromosomal fusion of the ancestral 30 and Z chromosomes.

Here we present the first reference quality, pseudochromosome-level genome for the species and a genome annotation. The lack of quality genomic resources has severely limited investigations to identify the mechanism of keratin digestion and chromosome evolution of this Ditrysian moth.

Tineola bisselliella, the webbing clothes moth, is a prolific pest species that is globally-distributed and has the ability to digest keratin. As larvae they leave their signature holes in clothes, rugs, and taxidermy.

So true, it definitely is hard to find larger sets. Set2 is pretty good (at least I can distinguish all the colors with Protanopia). You can actually specify RColorBrewer to only display colorblind friendly palettes which is super helpful: display.brewer.all(colorblindFriendly = TRUE)