The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Taxa that harbor natural phenotypic variation are ideal for ecological genomic approaches aimed at understanding how the interplay between genetic and environmental factors can lead to the evolution of complex traits. Lasioglossum albipes is a polymorphic halictid bee that expresses variation in social behavior among populations, and common-garden experiments have suggested that this variation is likely to have a genetic component.

Results

We present the L. albipes genome assembly to characterize the genetic and ecological factors associated with the evolution of social behavior. The de novo assembly is comparable to other published social insect genomes, with an N50 scaffold length of 602 kb. Gene families unique to L. albipes are associated with integrin-mediate

SUBMITTER: Kocher SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4062844 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature