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A chromosome-level genome assembly for the endangered northern dragonhead sap beetle Thymogethes norvegicus was built from a male, yielding two pseudo-haplotypes totaling 1,142 Mb and 1,109 Mb.
- Why it matters: The beetle’s survival is tightly linked to its vulnerable host plant Dracocephalum ruyschiana, yet genomic resources for this Norway-endemic endangered species are limited.
- What they did: They generated a chromosome-level assembly with two pseudo-haplotypes (hap1, hap2) and assessed quality using conserved single-copy ortholog completeness (96.6% and 90.7%) plus combined k-mer completeness (98.1%).
- The result: The assembly scaffolded 96.3% and 96.8% into chromosomes and annotated 13,484 and 12,550 protein-coding genes, enabling conservation genomics for this host-dependent species.
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