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The genome sequence of Lathbury's Nomad Bee, Nomada lathburiana (Kirby, 1802)
Liam M Crowley1, Steven Falk2,
1University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
Wellcome Open Research
|June 20, 2025
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Nomada lathburiana (Lathbury's Nomad Bee; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 269.68 megabases. Most of the assembly (90.08%) is scaffolded into 15 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 29.04 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly by Ensembl identified 11,607 protein-coding genes.
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