Chromosome-level genome of the venomous snail Kalloconus canariensis: a valuable model for venomics and comparative genomics.

Despite the great diversity of cone snails (>900 species) and their venoms (hundreds of peptides per species), only 2 recently reported genomes are available for the group. The high-quality chromosome-level assembly of K. canariensis will be a valuable reference for studying the origin and evolution of conotoxin genes as well as whole-genome duplication events during gastropod evolution.