The genomes sequenced for the neotropical stingless bees Scaptotrigona bipunctata and S. depilis strengthen the phylogenomics support for the taxonomy of social bees.

ABSTRACT: Bees are fundamental factors in ecology and agriculture due to their ecosystem services as pollinators, including many important crops. Because of its ecological significance and value to humans, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, was one of the earliest insect species targeted for genome sequencing, and over the last decades, many other species of social bees, including practically all species comprising the genus Apis and dozens of bumble bee species (Bombini) have complete genome assemblies deposited in public databases. The largest clade of the social bees, the stingless bees (Meliponini), is, however, strongly underrepresented. To date, only five genomes for species of three genera have been released for the New World stingless bees, which comprise over 400 species distributed in 32 gener

SUBMITTER: Hofstatter PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12703582 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature