REFERENCE GENOME OF THE LONG-JAWED ORB-WEAVER, Tetragnatha versicolor (ARANEAE: TETRAGNATHIDAE).

Climate-driven changes in hydrological regimes are of global importance and are particularly significant in riparian ecosystems. Riparian ecosystems in California provide refuge to many native and vulnerable species within a xeric landscape. California Tetragnatha spiders play a key role in riparian ecosystems, serving as a link between terrestrial and aquatic elements. Their tight reliance on water paired with the widespread distributions of many species make them ideal candidates to better understand the relative role of waterways versus geographic distance in shaping population structure. To assist in better understanding population structure, we constructed a reference genome assembly for T. versicolor using long read sequencing, scaffolded with proximity-ligation Omni-C data. The near-chromosome-level assembly is comprised of 174 scaffolds spanning 1.06 Gigabase pairs, with a scaffold N50 of 64.1 megabase pairs and BUSCO completeness of 97.6%. This reference genome will facilitate future study of T. versicolor population structure associated with the rapidly changing environment of California.