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Nomia melanderi
Summary
| Type |
organism
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| Genus |
Nomia
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| Species |
melanderi
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| Common Name |
Alkali bee
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| Description | |
| Organism Image |
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| Image Credit |
5565124-WEB.jpg by Allan Smith-Pardo, Bees of the United States, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license |
Assembly Stats
| Contig N50 |
13.9 Mb |
|---|---|
| GC Content |
42.0% |
| Scaffold N50 |
18 Mb |
Other Information
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Analyses
| Name | Program | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nomia melanderi genome assembly iyNomMela1 (GCF_051020985.1) | HiFiasm | Current |
| NCBI Nomia melanderi Annotation Release GCF_051020985.1-RS_2025_08 | NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline | Current |
| Functional annotation of NCBI Nomia melanderi Annotation Release GCF_051020985.1-RS_2025_08 | AgBase functional annotation pipeline | Current |
The alkali bee is about two-thirds the size of a honeybee with black and metallic banding on the abdomen. Females have, but infrequently use, stingers and the males have white faces. Males and females in the northern part of the range are larger than their counterparts to the south. This is theorized to allow larval bees to survive for longer without food and may also be related to a slightly longer day in the summer, allowing for increased brood provisioning. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali_bee
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).