Wellcome Open Research (Oct 2021)

The genome sequence of the garden bumblebee, Bombus hortorum (Linnaeus, 1761) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

  • Liam Crowley,
  • University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab,
  • Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective,
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme,
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective,
  • Tree of Life Core Informatics collective,
  • Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17187.1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6

Abstract

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We present a genome assembly from an individual female Bombus hortorum (the garden bumblebee; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae). The genome sequence is 296 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules.