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Apis mellifera genome sequencing project
The ~200 Mb honey bee genome was sequenced by the <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/honeybee/">Baylor College of Medicine</a> (BCM-HGSC) using a whole genome shotgun (WGS) approach. The sequence, assembly and analysis of the honey bee genome by the Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium was published in <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17073008">Nature</a> in October of 2006. Additional links to Nature, companion journals and other resources can be found at the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/bee/portal.html">Honey Bee Genome Publication and Press Portal</a>. Subsequent revisions to the assembly have incorporated Sanger, 454, and SOLiD sequencing and improvements to the linkage map.