The genome sequence of a carabid beetle, Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

Olga Sivell; Duncan Sivell; Ryan Mitchell; Maxwell V L Barclay; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23888.1

The genome sequence of a carabid beetle, Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

Wellcome Open Res. 2025 Mar 19:10:147. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23888.1. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Olga Sivell¹, Duncan Sivell¹, Ryan Mitchell², Maxwell V L Barclay¹; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
² Independent researcher, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from a female Abax parallelepipedus (carabid beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Carabidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 596.99 megabases. Most of the assembly (97.3%) is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 17.7 kilobases.

Keywords: Abax parallelepipedus; Coleoptera; carabid beetle; chromosomal; genome sequence.