Bombus campestris – The field cuckoo bee
The Darwin Tree of Life team are delighted to announce the release of three complete bumblebee genomes this week. These high-quality, chromosomally complete reference genomes have been produced from specimens from Wytham Woods, near Oxford.
Dr Liam Crowley, a postdoctoral field biologist at the University of Oxford who is a member of the Woodland Wonders team, writes about the importance of sequencing the genomes of bumblebees, and which species were sequenced.
You can also view the public genome data yourself!
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