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Bombus impatiens

    Summary
    Type
    organism
    Genus
    Bombus
    Species
    impatiens
    Common Name
    Common eastern bumble bee
    Description

    Bombus impatiens, the common eastern bumble bee, is the most commonly encountered bumblebee(link is external) across much of eastern North America(link is external). They can be found in the Eastern temperate forest(link is external) region of the eastern United States(link is external), southern Canada(link is external), and the eastern Great Plains(link is external). Because of their great adaptability, they can live in country, suburbs, and even urban cities. This adaptability makes them a great pollinator(link is external) species, leading to an increase in their commercial use by greenhouse(link is external) industry. This increase consequently led to their farther spread outside their previous distribution range. They are considered one of the most important species of pollinator bees in North America.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_impatiens(link is external)

    Genome update. Previously, the i5k Workspace@NAL hosted Bombus impatiens genome assembly BIMP_2.1 (GCF_000188095.2) and NCBI Bombus impatiens Annotation Release 102. The assembly and annotations have been updated to the most recent assembly, Bombus impatiens genome assembly BIMP_2.2 (GCF_000188095.3), and NCBI Bombus impatiens Annotation Release 103.


    Please cite the following publication(s) when using this dataset: Sadd, Ben M., et al. "The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization." Genome biology 16.1 (2015): 76. doi:10.1186/s13059-015-0623-3

    Datasets were provided by BeeBase(link is external).
    Publication
    Sadd BM, Barribeau SM, Bloch G, de Graaf DC, Dearden P, Elsik CG, Gadau J, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Hasselmann M, Lozier JD, Robertson HM, Smagghe G, Stolle E, Van Vaerenbergh M, Waterhouse RM, Bornberg-Bauer E, Klasberg S, Bennett AK, Câmara F, Guigó R, Hoff K, Mariotti M, Munoz-Torres M, Murphy T, Santesmasses D, Amdam GV, Beckers M, Beye M, Biewer M, Bitondi MM, Blaxter ML, Bourke AF, Brown MJ, Buechel SD, Cameron R, Cappelle K, Carolan JC, Christiaens O, Ciborowski KL, Clarke DF, Colgan TJ, Collins DH, Cridge AG, Dalmay T, Dreier S, du Plessis L, Duncan E, Erler S, Evans J, Falcon T, Flores K, Freitas FC, Fuchikawa T, Gempe T, Hartfelder K, Hauser F, Helbing S, Humann FC, Irvine F, Jermiin LS, Johnson CE, Johnson RM, Jones AK, Kadowaki T, Kidner JH, Koch V, Köhler A, Kraus FB, Lattorff HM, Leask M, Lockett GA, Mallon EB, Antonio DS, Marxer M, Meeus I, Moritz RF, Nair A, Näpflin K, Nissen I, Niu J, Nunes FM, Oakeshott JG, Osborne A, Otte M, Pinheiro DG, Rossié N, Rueppell O, Santos CG, Schmid-Hempel R, Schmitt BD, Schulte C, Simões ZL, Soares MP, Swevers L, Winnebeck EC, Wolschin F, Yu N, Zdobnov EM, Aqrawi PK, Blankenburg KP, Coyle M, Francisco L, Hernandez AG, Holder M, Hudson ME, Jackson L, Jayaseelan J, Joshi V, Kovar C, Lee SL, Mata R, Mathew T, Newsham IF, Ngo R, Okwuonu G, Pham C, Pu LL, Saada N, Santibanez J, Simmons D, Thornton R, Venkat A, Walden KK, Wu YQ, Debyser G, Devreese B, Asher C, Blommaert J, Chipman AD, Chittka L, Fouks B, Liu J, O'Neill MP, Sumner S, Puiu D, Qu J, Salzberg SL, Scherer SE, Muzny DM, Richards S, Robinson GE, Gibbs RA, Schmid-Hempel P, Worley KC. The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization. . Genome biology. 2015 Apr 24; 16:76.
    Organism Image
    Image Credit
    Christopher Johnson. View Source.(link is external) Public Domain .
    Assembly Stats
    Contig N50
    NA
    GC Content
    38.10
    Scaffold N50
    1399493
    Other Information
    Analyses
    Name Program
    Bombus impatiens annotations bimp_OGSv1.1 Augustus, GlimmerHMM, SNAP, TBLASTN, GLEAN
    Bombus impatiens genome assembly BIMP_2.1 (GCF_000188095.2) SOAPdenovo
    Functional annotation of NCBI Bombus impatiens Annotation Release 103 AgBase functional annotation pipeline
    Bombus impatiens genome assembly BIMP_2.2 (GCF_000188095.3) SOAPdenovo, Contaminant removal
    NCBI Bombus impatiens Annotation Release 103 NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
    NCBI Bombus impatiens Annotation Release 102 NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline