The first dataset of de novo transcriptome assembly of Heterotrigona itama (Apidae, Meliponinae) queen larva
Amin Asyraf Tamizi,
Nazrul Hisham Nazaruddin,
Wee Chien Yeong,
Muhammad Faris Mohd Radzi,
Mohd Azwan Jaafar,
Rogayah Sekeli
Affiliations
Amin Asyraf Tamizi
Corresponding author.; Agri-Omics and Bioinformatics Programme, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Nazrul Hisham Nazaruddin
Agri-Omics and Bioinformatics Programme, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Wee Chien Yeong
Agri-Omics and Bioinformatics Programme, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Muhammad Faris Mohd Radzi
Agri-Omics and Bioinformatics Programme, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Mohd Azwan Jaafar
Agri-Omics and Bioinformatics Programme, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Rogayah Sekeli
Agri-Omics and Bioinformatics Programme, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Research Centre, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Heterotrigona itama is a species of stingless bee recently domesticated (or reared) for honey production in a few Southeast Asian countries namely Malaysia and Indonesia. Being categorized in the clade Corbiculata together with the honeybees (Apis spp.) and bumble bees (Bombus spp.), the stingless bees are highly social in which the colony members are subjected to labor division where a queen functions as the reproductive caste. In this data article, we provide a resource encompassing a transcriptome profile (de novo assembled) from H. itama queen larva – the first report of transcriptome assembly for this species. The generated data is pivotal for the characterization of important genes and biological pathways in order to further improve our understanding on the developmental biology, behavior, social structure and ecological needs of this eusocial hymenopteran insect from the molecular aspect. The raw RNA sequencing data is available at NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SAR) under the accession number SRP230250 and the assembled reads are deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/Genbank as Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) under the accession GIIH00000000. Keywords: Caste, Entomology, Meliponine, RNA-seq, Transcriptomics
