Bombus flavifrons
Summary
| Type |
organism
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| Genus |
Bombus
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| Species |
flavifrons
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| Common Name |
Yellow-fronted bumble bee
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| Genome Browser | |
| Description |
This is a robust bumblebee; the queen has a body length between 13 and 16 mm (0.51 and 0.63 in) and a wingspan of 27 to 34 mm (1.1 to 1.3 in), the male is 11 to 12 mm (0.43 to 0.47 in) in length with a wingspan of 25 to 26 mm (0.98 to 1.02 in), and the workers are 9 to 12 mm (0.35 to 0.47 in) in length and 19 to 27 mm (0.75 to 1.06 in) in wingspan. The yellow-fronted bumble bee has a dense, untidy fur. The head is yellow with black hairs intermixed on the posterior part, the thorax has a mixed black and yellow colouration, often (always with the queen) with a black, central field. The first two terga (abdominal segments) are yellow, on the females often with a black, central field on terga 1 to 2. Terga 3 and 4 are red, and the tail black, sometimes with yellow fields. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_flavifrons This genome project is part of the Beenome100 project (https://www.beenome100.org).
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| Publication |
Lozier JD, Schweizer RM, Sim SB, Hines HM, Branstetter MG, Benavides LR, Geib SM, Koch JBU. Reference genome assemblies for the North American bumble bees Bombus flavifrons and Bombus fervidus, two phenotypically polymorphic species from distinct phylogenetic lineages. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). 2026 May 06; 16(5).
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| Organism Image | |
| Image Credit |
5555760-WEB.jpg by Allan Smith-Pardo, Bees of the United States, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. |
Assembly Stats
| Contig N50 |
13.5 Mb |
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| GC Content |
36.5% |
| Scaffold N50 |
15.6 Mb |
Other Information
| Community Contact |
Jonathan Koch, USDA-ARS |
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| Links |
Analyses
| Name | Program | Status Sort descending |
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| NCBI Bombus flavifrons Annotation Release GCF_040668555.2-RS_2026_04 | NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline | Current |
| Bombus flavifrons genome assembly iyBomFlav1_principal (GCF_040668555.2) | HiFiASM | Current |
| Functional annotation of NCBI Bombus flavifrons Annotation Release GCF_040668555.2-RS_2026_04 | AgBase functional annotation pipeline | Current |