The genome sequence of the pond louse, Asellus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Asellus aquaticus (pond louse; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Asellidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 1,977.80 megabases. Most of the assembly (93.57%) is scaffolded into 8 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has a length of 16.53 kilobases.