Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41029998›Full record

ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2025

Chromosome-level assembly of the club-legged grasshopper (Gomphocerus sibiricus) genome.

Octavio M Palacios-Gimenez, Mahendra Varma, Xinyi Cheng, Mai-Britt Mosbech, Alexander Suh, Holger Schielzeth

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Octavio M Palacios-GimenezPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Straße 159, Jena 07743, Thuringia, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1472-9949
Mahendra VarmaPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Straße 159, Jena 07743, Thuringia, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0271-4958
Xinyi ChengPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Straße 159, Jena 07743, Thuringia, Germany.
Mai-Britt MosbechDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala Genome Center, Uppsala University, National Genomics Infrastructure Hosted by SciLifeLab, Box 518, Uppsala 75108, Uppland, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6068-0971
Alexander SuhDepartment of Organismal Biology-Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75236, Uppland, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8979-9992
Holger SchielzethPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Straße 159, Jena 07743, Thuringia, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9124-2261

Funding

2020-03866German Research FoundationSwedish Research Council 2017-01597Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Grasshoppers represent true outliers in genome sizes, both within insects and within animals in general. Their genomes are large and generally variable in sizes and feature a high abundance of repetitive DNA sequences. This has hampered the assembly of grasshopper genomes to the chromosome level. Here we present a chromosome-level reference genome for the club-legged grasshopper (Gomphocerus sibiricus, Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) using PacBio HiFi long-read and Hi-C sequencing technologies. In male haploid cells, the species has a chromosome set of n = 9 with an X0 sex-determination system, characterized by an absence of a Y chromosome. Our assembly spans 9.57 Gb in total, with 8.87 Gb organized into 9 chromosomes-8 autosomes and the X chromosome. The final assembly has a scaffold N50 value of 1.58 Gb, covers 96.7% single copy Insecta orthologs, and contains 42,665 predicted protein-coding genes and 43,385 mRNA transcripts. We compiled a curated, nonredundant, species-specific repeat library and used it to annotate repetitive DNA, covering 81.69% of the genome, mostly DNA transposons, long-interspersed nuclear element and long-terminal repeat retrotransposons. The genome of the club-legged grasshopper shows high degree of synteny with the locusts Schistocerca gregaria and Locusta migratoria, and the analysis strongly indicates 3 autosome-autosome centric fusions in Gomphocerinae. The genome offers a valuable resource for grasshopper genomics and for exploring the genetic basis of a transspecies color polymorphism.

Indexed as

Chromosomes, InsectGenome, InsectGenomicsGrasshoppersAnimalsFemaleMaleMolecular Sequence AnnotationAcrididaechromosome-level genome assemblycolor polymorphismGomphocerinaeOrthoptera

Identifiers

PMID41029998
PMCPMC12693501

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.