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Megalopta genalis
Summary
| Type |
organism
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|---|---|
| Genus |
Megalopta
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| Species |
genalis
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| Common Name |
NA
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| Description | |
| Organism Image |
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| Image Credit |
15121604247_5ce3b82f9a_w.jpg by Sam Droege, USGS Bee Lab licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal license |
Assembly Stats
| Contig N50 |
3.5 Mb |
|---|---|
| GC Content |
39.0% |
| Scaffold N50 |
5.5 Mb |
Other Information
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Analyses
| Name | Program | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Megalopta genalis genome assembly iyMegGenl1_principal (GCF_051020955.1) | HiFiasm | Current |
| NCBI Megalopta genalis Annotation Release GCF_051020955.1-RS_2025_08 | NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline | Current |
| Functional annotation of NCBI Megalopta genalis Annotation Release GCF_051020955.1-RS_2025_08 | AgBase functional annotation pipeline | Current |
This bee is variable in size, especially among females. The average female has an intertegular distance (the width of the body measured between the wing bases) of 3 millimeters, and the average male is more slender, with an intertegular distance of about 2.4 millimeters. Gynandromorphy occurs in this species, where an individual of one sex can have some body parts of the opposite sex. Upon emerging from the egg it takes the bee about 35 days to reach adulthood.
The species creates nests in dead wood, usually in a tunnel-like fashion. It typically uses fallen branches and vines that lie in tangles in the understory of rain forests. The sticks used for nesting are 1 to 10 centimeters wide. It creates a tunnel with an opening surrounded by a collar of crumbled wood. The cells inside the nest are made of wood fibers. The adult female bee places a loaf of pollen in each cell and lays an egg on top. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopta_genalis
This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use.
This genome project is part of the Beenome100 project (https://www.beenome100.org).