“…According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species v3.1 (https:// www.iucnr edlist.org/), this economically and ecologically valuable oak species is threatened by illegal timber trade and harvesting, and its populations is continuously declining (Barstow, 2018). Previous studies of Q. mongolica have focused on its genetic diversity (Chen et al, 2021;Pang et al, 2019), evolutionary history (Liao et al, 2019;Zeng et al, 2011Zeng et al, , 2015, and disease (Kim et al, 2016;Nguyen et al, 2020;Watanabe et al, 2014). However, to date, no nuclear genome resources are available for Q. mongolica, although a chloroplast genome has been reported (Xia & Wang, 2019).…”