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Apis mellifera (honey bee) The honey bee is a social insect, important for agricultural and biomedical research studies Lineage: Eukaryota[15557]; Metazoa[7782]; Ecdysozoa[3517]; Arthropoda[3303]; Hexapoda[2975]; Insecta[2841]; Pterygota[2839]; Neoptera[2820]; Endopterygota[2630]; Hymenoptera[461]; Apocrita[413]; Aculeata[229]; Apoidea[132]; Anthophila[122]; Apidae[71]; Apis[5]; Apis mellifera[1]

The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a valuable organism for study due to its unique behavioral traits and social instincts. A. mellifera is important to the agricultural community as a pollinator and to researchers as a model for studies in immunity and diseases of the X chromosome. These characteristics of the honey bee were instrumental More...in its assignment as a high priority organism for genome sequencing by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Less...

Summary Sequence data:  genome assemblies: 7; sequence reads: 24  (See  Genome Assembly and Annotation report) Statistics:  median total length (Mb): 227.093  median protein count: 10546  median GC%: 32.5 NCBI Annotation Release:  104 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) A hybrid de novo genome assembly of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, with chromosome-length scaffolds. Wallberg A, et al. BMC Genomics 2019 Apr 8 Draft genome sequence of the Algerian bee Apis mellifera intermissa. Haddad NJ, et al. Genom Data 2015 Jun Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade. Elsik CG, et al. BMC Genomics 2014 Jan 30 Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium Nature 2006 Oct 26 The mitochondrial genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera: complete sequence and genome organization. Crozier RH, et al. Genetics 1993 Jan More...  Representative (genome information for reference and representative genomes) Reference genome:   Apis mellifera Amel_HAv3.1 Submitter: Uppsala University Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene group LG1 NC_037638.1 CM009931.2 27.75 34.1 3,130 - 8 573 1,553 3 group LG2 NC_037639.1 CM009932.2 16.09 34.4 1,692 - 23 260 851 1 group LG3 NC_037640.1 CM009933.2 13.62 32.9 1,545 26 14 420 824 4 group LG4 NC_037641.1 CM009934.2 13.4 33.3 1,460 1 33 244 736 1 group LG5 NC_037642.1 CM009935.2 13.9 33.6 1,617 - 4 282 887 - group LG6 NC_037643.1 CM009936.2 17.79 32.1 1,285 - 10 430 816 1 group LG7 NC_037644.1 CM009937.2 14.2 29.6 1,139 - 9 201 586 1 group LG8 NC_037645.1 CM009938.2 12.72 32.1 1,724 - 19 324 866 2 group LG9 NC_037646.1 CM009939.2 12.35 31.4 1,300 3 7 173 646 3 group LG10 NC_037647.1 CM009940.2 12.36 35.4 1,343 - 10 282 736 1 group LG11 NC_037648.1 CM009941.2 16.35 30.5 1,975 - 11 424 1,017 3 group LG12 NC_037649.1 CM009942.2 11.51 33.3 959 11 8 161 505 - group LG13 NC_037650.1 CM009943.2 11.28 34.8 942 - 8 162 485 5 group LG14 NC_037651.1 CM009944.2 10.67 33.0 1,292 - 5 168 634 4 group LG15 NC_037652.1 CM009945.2 9.53 32.1 1,276 - 16 171 698 3 group LG16 NC_037653.1 CM009946.2 7.24 31.4 697 - 10 232 415 1 MT NC_001566.1 CM009947.2 0.02 15.1 13 2 22 - 37 - Un - . - 4.46 23.4 82 14 1 115 106 9 Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer External Resources BeeSpace FTP GOLD Honey Bee EST Project Honey Bee Hemolymph Protein Db BeeBase OrthoDB BCM HGSC UCSC Genome Browser DFCI Honeybee Gene Index ListServ Archives