<b>Chromosome-scale whole genome assembly and annotation of the Jamaican field cricket </b><b><i>Gryllus assimilis</i></b>

<i>Gryllus assimilis</i>, commonly known as Jamaican field cricket, is an edible insect with significant economic value in sustainable food production. Despite its importance, a high-quality reference genome of <i>G. assimilis</i> has not yet been published. Here, we report a chromosome-level reference genome of <i>G. assimilis </i>based on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing, Illumina sequencing, and Hi-C technologies. The assembled genome has a total length of 1.60 Gbp with scaffold N50 of 102 Mbp, and 96.80% of the nucleotides was assigned to 15 chromosome-scale scaffolds. The assembly completeness was validated using BUSCO, achieving 99.5% completeness against the arthropoda database. We predicted 27,645 protein-coding genes, and 825 Mb repetitive elements were annotated in the reference genome. This reference genome of <i>G. assimilis </i>can provide a basis for the subsequent development of genomic resources, offering insights for future functional genomic studies, comparative genomics, and DNA-informed breeding of this species.