Vespa mandarinia found in the forests of East Asia, including Korea, occupies the highest rank in the arthropod food web within\nits geographical range. It serves as a source of nutrition in the form of Vespa amino acid mixture and is listed as a threatened\nspecies, although no conservation measures have been implemented. Here, we performed de novo assembly of the V. mandarinia\ntranscriptome by Illumina HiSeq 4000 sequencing. Over 60 million raw reads and 59,184,811 clean reads were obtained. After\nassembly, a total of 66,837 unigenes were clustered, 40,887, 44,455, and 22,390 of which showed homologous matches against the\nPANM, Unigene, and KOG databases, respectively. A total of 15,675 unigenes were assigned to Gene Ontology terms, and 5,132\nunigenes were mapped to 115 KEGG pathways.The zinc finger domain (C2H2-like), serine/threonine/dual specificity protein kinase\ndomain, and RNA recognition motif domain were among the top InterProScan domains predicted for V. mandarinia sequences.\nAmong the unigenes, we identified 534,922 cDNA simple sequence repeats as potential markers. This is the first transcriptomic\nanalysis of the wasp V. mandarinia using Illumina HiSeq 4000.The obtained datasets should promote the search for new genes to\nunderstand the physiological attributes of this wasp.
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