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Bombus terrestris

    Summary
    Type
    organism
    Genus
    Bombus
    Species
    terrestris
    Common Name
    Buff-tailed bumblebee
    Description

    Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee, is one of the most numerous bumblebee(link is external) species(link is external) in Europe(link is external). It is one of the main species used in greenhouse pollination(link is external), and so can be found in many countries and areas where it is not native, such as Tasmania(link is external). Moreover, it is a eusocial(link is external) insect with an overlap of generations, a division of labor, and cooperative brood care. The queen is monandrous(link is external) which means she mates with only one male. B. terrestris workers learn flower colors and forage efficiently.
    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_terrestris(link is external)

    Genome update. Previously, the i5k Workspace@NAL hosted Bombus terrestris genome assembly Bter_1.0 (GCF_000214255.1), NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 102, and Bombus terrestris annotations Bombus_terrestris_v1.4, which were provided by BeeBase(link is external). The assembly and annotations have been updated to the most recent assembly, iyBomTerr1.2 (GCF_910591885.1), and annotations, NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 103 and Functional annotation of NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 103.

    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

    Ivar Leidus. View Source.(link is external) CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Assembly Stats
    Contig N50

    6780370

    GC Content

    38.5

    Scaffold N50

    14593050

    Other Information
    Community Contact

    Chris Elsik, University of Missouri

    Analyses
    Name Program
    Bombus terrestris annotations Bombus_terrestris_v1.4 Augustus, GlimmerHMM, SNAP, TBLASTN, GLEAN
    NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 102 NCBI Eukaryotic annotation pipeline
    Bombus terrestris genome assembly Bter_1.0 (GCF_000214255.1) Newbler v. 2.3-PreRelease-10/19/2009 and Phrap
    Functional annotation of NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 102 AgBase functional annotation pipeline
    Functional annotation of NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 103 AgBase functional annotation pipeline
    NCBI Bombus terrestris Annotation Release 103 NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
    Bombus terrestris genome assembly iyBomTerr1.2 (GCF_910591885.1) Hifiasm, FreeBayes, LongRanger, Hi-C, SALSA2, MitoHifi, gEVAL