Apis florea (Dwarf honeybee) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Apis florea

The dwarf honey bee, Apis florea, is one of two species of small, wild honey bees of southern and southeastern Asia. It has a much wider distribution than its sister species, Apis andreniformis. First identified in the late 18th century, Apis florea is unique for its morphology, foraging behavior and defensive mechanisms like making a piping noise. Apis florea have open nests and small colonies, which makes them more susceptible to predation than cavity nesters with large numbers of defensive workers. These honey bees are important pollinators and therefore commodified in countries like Cambodia.

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_000184785.3].

The total length of the assembly is 229015090 bp contained within 6984 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 2863240, the scaffold L50 value is 22. Assembly gaps span 17667967 bp.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v102. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.