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The genome sequence of the Large Red Tailed Bumble Bee, Bombus lapidarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Olga Sivell1, Duncan Sivell1, Matthew N Smith2
1Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|April 7, 2025
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual female specimen of Bombus lapidarius (Large Red Tailed Bumble Bee; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 368.50 megabases. Most of the assembly (81.04%) is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 28.11 kilobases in length.
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