A hybrid de novo genome assembly of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, with chromosome-length scaffolds.

Andreas WallbergIgnas BunikisOlga Vinnere PetterssonMai-Britt MosbechAnna K ChildersJay D EvansAlexander S MikheyevHugh M RobertsonGene E RobinsonMatthew T Webster

Published in: BMC genomics (2019)

The improved assembly will be of utility for refining gene models, studying genome function, mapping functional genetic variation, identification of structural variants, and comparative genomics.

Keyphrases

copy number
genome wide
dna methylation
high resolution
single cell
gene expression
high density
transcription factor