Veleropilina gretchenae is one of the first members of the class Monoplacophora to have a high-quality genome published directly from its holotype specimen.
Notes on verification
Verbatim claim traceable to the peer-reviewed original species description (Sigwart & Steger et al. 2025) and corroborated by an independent companion Science paper (Chen et al. 2025) confirming this specimen was among the first two monoplacophoran genomes sequenced. Secondary science journalism reiterates but does not independently verify.
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