Bombus impatiens (Common eastern bumblebee) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Bombus impatiens

The common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) is the most commonly encountered bumblebee across much of eastern North America. They can be found in the Eastern Temperate Forest region of the eastern United States, southern Canada, and the eastern Great Plains. Because of their great adaptability, they can live in country, suburbs, and even urban cities. This adaptability makes them a great pollinator species, leading to an increase in their commercial use by greenhouse industry. This increase consequently led to their farther spread outside their previous distribution range. They are considered one of the most important species of pollinator bees in North America.

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the BIMP_2.2 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000188095.4.

Annotation

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

References

1. The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization.
   Sadd BM et al.. 2015. Genome Biololgy. 16:76.
2. BeeBase