ERGA-BGE genome of the ironclad beetle Tarphius canariensis Wollaston, 1862

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  1. Brent C Emerson
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  2. María Conejero ,  
  3. Ana Riesgo
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  4. Víctor Noguerales ,  
  5. Rita Monteiro ,  
  6. Astrid Böhne ,  
  7. Javier Palma Guerrero ,  
  8. Rosa Fernández
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  9. Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team
    ,  
  10. Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations
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  11. Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team
    ,  
  12. Leanne Haggerty ,  
  13. Fergal Martin
    ,  
  14. Tom Brown
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Abstract

We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Tarphius canariensis (Ironclad beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Zopheridae), a representative species from one of the more notable arthropod radiations within the Canary Islands. The entirety of the genome sequence was assembled into 10 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 311 Mb, composed of 50 contigs and 13 scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 14.5 Mb and 31.1 Mb, respectively.

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Tom Brown
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This project received funding from Horizon Europe under the Biodiversity, Circular Economy and Environment (REA.B.3) No 101059492; co-funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract numbers 22.00173 and 24.00054; and by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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© 2025 Brent C Emerson (Co-Author); María Conejero (Co-Author); Ana Riesgo (Co-Author); Víctor Noguerales (Co-Author); Rita Monteiro (Co-Author); Astrid Böhne (Co-Author); Javier Palma Guerrero (Co-Author); Rosa Fernández (Co-Author); Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team (Co-Author); Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations (Co-Author); Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team (Co-Author); Leanne Haggerty (Co-Author); Fergal Martin (Co-Author); Tom Brown (Corresponding Author, Co-Author) Creative Commons License

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Brent C Emerson

Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

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Co-Author, Investigation, Resources, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing

María Conejero

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales- CSIC, Madrid, Spain

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Co-Author, Investigation, Resources, Writing – Review & Editing

Ana Riesgo

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales- CSIC, Madrid, Spain

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Co-Author, Investigation, Resources, Writing – Review & Editing

Víctor Noguerales

Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Current address: Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Departamento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain

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Co-Author, Investigation, Resources, Writing – Review & Editing

Rita Monteiro

Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change - Museum Koenig Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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Co-Author, Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Astrid Böhne

Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change - Museum Koenig Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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Co-Author, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Javier Palma Guerrero

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

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Co-Author, Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Rosa Fernández

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

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Co-Author, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Project Administration, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team

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Co-Author

Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations

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Co-Author

Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team

Roles
Co-Author

Leanne Haggerty

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

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Co-Author, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Writing – Review & Editing
0000-0001-8843-3596

Fergal Martin

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

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Co-Author, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Tom Brown

Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (BeGenDiv), Koenigin-Luise-Str 6-8, Berlin, 14195, Germany

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Corresponding Author, Co-Author, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft Preparation
0000-0001-8293-4816

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