Bombus huntii (Hunt's bumblebee, Logan2020A) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Bombus huntii

Bombus huntii is a species of bumblebee. It is native to western North America, where it occurs in western Canada and the United States as far east as Manitoba and Minnesota, and in Mexico as far south as the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It is known commonly as the Hunt bumblebee or Hunt's bumblebee.

This bee lives in desert scrub, prairies, and meadows. In the southern part of its range in Mexico it lives in pine ecosystems and it can be found at high elevations, such as the tops of tall volcanoes. The bee is active in summer and fall, and in southern areas it flies throughout much of the year. It nests underground.

Food plants visited by this species include rabbitbrush, thistles, sunflowers, penstemons, phacelias, currants, rudbeckias, and clovers.

This bumblebee is susceptible to certain viruses that infect honey bees, such as Black Queen Cell Virus (BQCV)[3] and Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) [1]. Experiments suggest that this and other native species make efficient pollinators of crop plants such as tomatoes, and that commercial rearing would be a viable alternative to introducing non-native bees for the purpose [2].

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(Text from Wikipedia.)

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_024542735.1].

The total length of the assembly is 317402180 bp contained within 225 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 17546577, the scaffold L50 value is 8. Assembly gaps span 3800 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 37.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_024542735.1.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v100. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

* References *

1. Li, J., et al. (2011). Cross-species infection of deformed wing virus poses a new threat to pollinator conservation. Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Economic Entomology, 104(3), 732-739. 2 Strange, J. P. (2015). Bombus huntii, Bombus impatiens, and Bombus vosnesenskii (Hymenoptera: Apidae) pollinate greenhouse-grown tomatoes in western North America. Journal of Economic Entomology, 108(3), 873-879.