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Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

BMC Genomics · 2014 · Vol. 15(1) · pp. 86–86

Christine G. Elsik✉(Georgetown University)Kim C. Worley(Baylor College of Medicine)Anna K. Bennett(Georgetown University)Martin Beye(Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)Francisco Câmara Ferreira(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)Christopher Childers(Georgetown University)Dirk C. de Graaf(Ghent University)Griet Debyser(Ghent University)Jixin Deng(Baylor College of Medicine)Bart Devreese(Ghent University)Eran Elhaik(Johns Hopkins University)Jay D. Evans(Agricultural Research Service)Leonard J. Foster(University of British Columbia)Dan Graur(University of Houston)Roderic Guigó(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)HGSC production teams(Universität Greifswald)Katharina J. Hoff(Baylor College of Medicine)Michael Holder(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Matthew E. Hudson(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Greg J. Hunt(State Street (United States))Huaiyang Jiang(Baylor College of Medicine)Vandita Joshi(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Radhika S. Khetani(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Peter Kosarev(Baylor College of Medicine)Christie Kovar(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Jian Ma(Australian National University)Ryszard Maleszka(Australian National University)Robin F. A. Moritz(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)Mónica Muñoz-Torres(National Institutes of Health)Terence D. Murphy(National Institutes of Health)Donna M. Muzny(Baylor College of Medicine)Irene Newsham(Baylor College of Medicine)Justin Reese(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Hugh M. Robertson(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Gene E. Robinson(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Olav Rueppell(University of North Carolina at Greensboro)Victor Solovyev(Universität Greifswald)Mario Stanke(Universität Greifswald)Eckart Stolle(Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)Jennifer M. Tsuruda(Ghent University)Matthias Van Vaerenbergh(University of Geneva)Robert M. Waterhouse(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)Daniel Weaver(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Charles W. Whitfield(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)Yuanqing Wu(University of Geneva)Evgeny M. Zdobnov(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)Lan Zhang(Baylor College of Medicine)Dianhui Zhu(Baylor College of Medicine)Richard A. Gibbs(Baylor College of Medicine)

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Abstract

Lessons learned from this genome upgrade have important implications for future genome sequencing projects. Furthermore, the improvements significantly enhance genomic resources for the honey bee, a key model for social behavior and essential to global ecology through pollination.

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Insect and Pesticide Research Plant and animal studiesGenomeBiologyHoney beeGeneGene predictionGenome projectSequence assemblyGeneticsGenome sizeWhole genome sequencing

MeSH terms

AnimalsBase CompositionBeesPeptidesOpen Reading FramesGenes, InsectSequence Homology, Amino AcidSequence Analysis, RNAInterspersed Repetitive SequencesDatabases, GeneticMolecular Sequence Annotation