Genome assembly of the flour beetle Tribolium madens
The aim of the study was to sequence the genome of the flour beetle Tribolium madens. It is a congener of the representative coleopteran species Tribolium castaneum. The sequencing was performed using PacBio HiFi technology, providing approximately 75-fold genome coverage. De novo genome assembly was generated using Hifiasm v0.16.1 assembler. 362 Mb of the genome sequence were anchored in 409 contigs. The assembly showed 99.3% completeness of conserved insect genes, indicating a high-quality, contig-level genome assembly.