“…Of note, the number of autosomes assembled from A . geniculea is 28, which is different to other crambids (Chen et al, 2022; Law et al, 2022; Xu et al, 2022) 1 , 2 , 3 . A validation step with macrosynteny against other crambids is recommended to make further proof for the completeness of the assembly, although only 0.14% of the final assembly were not anchored to any chromosome.…”