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<i>Dendarus foraminosus</i> Mulsant and Rey, 1855 is a darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae and one of the many <i>Dendarus</i> species endemic to the island of Crete. <i>Dendarus foraminosus</i> is a commonly found species and …
Read PDFSquamates include more than 11,000 extant species of lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, and display a dazzling diversity of phenotypes across their over 200-million-year evolutionary history on Earth. Here, we introduce and define squamates (Order Squamata) …
Read PDFAmphibians of the Afrobatrachia clade represent a major component of sub-Saharan Africa's biodiversity, yet they remain underrepresented in genomic databases. Here, we present the first whole-genome assembly of the Common Reed Frog, Hyperolius viridiflavus viridiflavus …
Read PDFWe present a de novo mitogenome assembly from a specimen of Rhinichthys atratulus, the Eastern Blacknose Dace, collected in the Connecticut River drainage. R. atratulus is a fish species widely distributed across Atlantic slope drainages …
Read PDFThe Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky), and the citrus longhorned beetle, A. malasiaca (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), represent two globally notorious forest pests whose introductions into North America and Europe have caused extensive damage to …
Read PDF<b>Background:</b> Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes that maintain chromosome integrity in eukaryotes. In insects, the canonical telomeric repeat (TTAGG)<i>n</i> is considered ancestral, though alternative motifs exist across various orders. Neuroptera, comprising about 5800 species, remains understudied …
Read PDFThe cosmopolitan genus <i>Xylaria</i> Hill ex Schrank (Ascomycota, Sordariomycetes), is the largest within the order Xylariales. While <i>Xylaria</i> species primarily exist as saprotrophs, they can also occur as endophytes or as phytopathogens. Specimens of <i>Xylaria</i> …
Read PDFThe complete mitochondrial genome of <i>Pennisetum giganteum</i>, an African species, was sequenced and characterized for the first time. The genome is 491,311 bp long and contains 53 unique genes. Phylogenetic analysis based on these genes …
Read PDFHanak's bat ( <i>Pipistrellus hanaki</i> Hulva and Benda 2004) is one of the most range restricted mammals in Europe, since it occurs only in Cyrenaica, Libya, and Crete (Greece). It is currently classified as 'Vulnerable' …
Read PDFPhylogenomics reveals reticulate evolution to be widespread across taxa, but whether reticulation is due to low statistical power or it is a true evolutionary pattern remains a field of study. Here, we investigate the phylogeny …
Read PDFSex chromosomes have evolved independently many times across eukaryotes. Despite a considerable body of literature on sex chromosome evolution, the causes and consequences of variation in their formation, degeneration, and turnover remain poorly understood. Chromosomal …
Read PDFAmerican sloughgrass [Beckmannia syzigachne (Steud.) Fernald] is a problematic annual grass weed in winter wheat fields of China, which causes great loss of wheat yield. A lack of high-quality genome resources has hindered understanding of …
Read PDFFreshwater Gammarus species represent important keystone organisms in aquatic ecosystems, and are sensitive to environmental changes. Here, we present the first pseudo-chromosome-level genome of Gammarus nekkensis, endemic to north China. We integrated PacBio HiFi long-read …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Ammopiptanthus nanus is a rare broad-leaved shrub that is found in the desert and arid regions of Central Asia. This plant species exhibits extremely high tolerance to drought and freezing and has been used in …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>In the past two decades, bats have emerged as an important model system to study host-pathogen interactions. More recently, it has been shown that bats may also serve as a new and excellent model to …
Read PDFLong-read sequencing technologies have contributed greatly to comparative genomics among species and can also be applied to study genomics within a species. In this study, to determine how substantial genomic changes are generated and tolerated …
Read PDFThe reference genomes of <i>Bombyx mori</i> (<i>B. mori</i>), Silkworm Knowledge-based database (SilkDB) and SilkBase, have served as the gold standard for nearly two decades. Their use has fundamentally shaped model organisms and accelerated relevant studies …
Read PDFOver the past decade, the spotted wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, has invaded Europe and America and has become a major agricultural pest in these areas, thereby prompting intense research activities to better understand its biology. …
Read PDFHybrid genome assembly has emerged as an important technique in bacterial genomics, but cost and labor requirements limit large-scale application. We present Ultraplexing, a method to improve per-sample sequencing cost and hands-on time of Nanopore …
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