Journal
G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages 2891-2898Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.043687
Keywords
whole-genome assembly; corbiculate bee; orchid bee; eusocial; mitochondrial genome; Genome Report
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- Beijing Genomics Institute
- German academic exchange service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD)
- National Science Foundation [DEB-1457753]
- NIH S10 Instrumentation Grants [S10RR029668, S10RR027303, OD018174]
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Bees provide indispensable pollination services to both agricultural crops and wild plant populations, and several species of bees have become important models for the study of learning and memory, plant-insect interactions, and social behavior. Orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini) are especially important to the fields of pollination ecology, evolution, and species conservation. Here we report the nuclear and mitochondrial genome sequences of the orchid bee Euglossa dilemma Bembe & Eltz. E. dilemma was selected because it is widely distributed, highly abundant, and it was recently naturalized in the southeastern United States. We provide a high-quality assembly of the 3.3 Gb genome, and an official gene set of 15,904 gene annotations. We find high conservation of gene synteny with the honey bee throughout 80 MY of divergence time. This genomic resource represents the first draft genome of the orchid bee genus Euglossa, and the first draft orchid bee mitochondrial genome, thus representing a valuable resource to the research community.
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