This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 2312129
to BAL. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of
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Check out the paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Snead AA, Meng F, Largotta N, Winchell KM, Levine BA. 2025. Diploid chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation for Lycorma delicatula. Scientific Data, 12:579. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Special thanks to our two leads, NYU postdoc @anthonysnead.bsky.social and PhD candidate Fallon Meng, for their excellent transcriptomics and annotation work.

This work is the first paper to come out of my #NSF BRC-BIO grant on invasive spotted lanternfly evolution (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...)

We also noticed a bunch of genes related to chemical detection, sense of smell, and reproduction on chromosome #12. This chromosome may be important for control of this invasive species.

We identified over 12,000 protein-coding genes on 13 chromosomes, and we pinpointed chromosome #4 as the likely sex chromosome for this species.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 2312129
to BAL. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of
the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

We also noticed that chromosome #12 has a bunch of genes on it for chemical detection, perception of smell, and reproduction. This chromosome may be important for control.

We identified over 12,000 protein-coding genes on 13 chromosomes, and we pinpointed chromosome #4 as the likely sex chromosome.

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Seeing my grant on this “naughty list”, as some have called it, is a gut punch. I’m feeling totally betrayed.

Did you see the report this originates from? The "methods" are in an appendix and they are truly atrocious and arbitrary

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