Bombyx mori (Domestic silkworm, p50T) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Bombyx mori

The silkworm, Bombyx mori, has been used for silk production for over 5,000 years, and continues to be an economically important species. B. mori is a fully domesticated insect, and due to its ease of culture, the silkworm has become a model organism in the study of lepidopteran and arthropod biology [1,2].

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the Bmori_2016v1.0 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_014905235.2.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displays the genes from NCBI Bombyx mori Annotation Release 103. Small RNA features, protein features and cross-references have been annotated by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

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