Manual superscaffolding of honey bee (Apis mellifera) chromosomes 12-16: Implications for the draft genome assembly version 4, gene annotation, and chromosome structure

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 401-410

  Robertson, Hugh M ^a   Reese, Justin T ^b   Milshina, Natalia V ^b   Agarwala, Richa ^c   Solignac, Michel ^d   Walden, Kimberly K O ^a   Elsik, Christine G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Centromere; Genome assembly; Honey bee; MAD gene; Superscaffold

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHROMOSOMES; GENOME; GENOMICS;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 34447646955     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2007.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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