From mid-August till mid-September, Dr. Hans Recknagel visited BGI-Qingdao to discuss the progress of the genome assembly with the Qingdao working group. During his research visit, he met with Dr. Chengcheng Shi, who is coordinating the genome assembly and analyses on the side of BGI-Qingdao. Through many productive discussions, progress on the evolutionary analyses was made and a plan for the remaining analyses was developed. Through meetings with Prof. Lars Bolund and Prof. Yonglun Luo and official members of BGI-Qingdao the relationship between Slovenian and Chinese research teams was solidified.