Zephyr sweat bee (Lasioglossum zephyrum)
Lasioglossum zephyrum (also appearing under the name Lasioglossum zephyrus) is a sweat bee of the family Halictidae, found in the U.S. and Canada. It is considered a primitively eusocial bee (meaning that they do not have a permanent division of labor within colonies), although it may be facultatively solitary (i.e., displaying both solitary and eusocial behaviors). Read more about zephyr sweat bees on iNaturalist.org.
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Download the LZEP_genome_v2.1.1.fasta.gz file containing the chromosome-length (2n=28) assembly of the zephyr sweat bee genome. All modifications with respect to the draft (see below) are annotated in the LZEP_genome_v2.1.1.assembly file. Some basic stats associated with the new reference, LZEP_genome_v2.1.1, are listed below. The full data release can be explored here.
The chromosome-length genome assembly is based on the draft assembly LZEP_genome_v1.0, credited below.
This genome assembly was created in collaboration with the Kocher Lab at Princeton University. The draft was assembled with Supernova assembler using 10x Genomics linked-read libraries. For details see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.14.439731v1..
The head and thorax sample for in situ Hi-C preparation was donated by a female individual named COI-eq ID: N/A, Legacy ID: LZEP026, 4-letter alias: LZEP, alt: Apo0031, and obtained from Kocher Lab, Princeton University.
Hi-C data was aligned to the draft reference using Juicer (Durand, Shamim et al., Cell Systems, 2016), and contact maps visualizing the alignments with respect to the draft and the new reference were built using 3D-DNA (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The contact maps can be explored below via Juicebox.js interactive tool (Robinson et al., Cell Systems, 2018). To explore the assembly in greater detail, please download the .hic and .assembly files from the data release folder and use Juicebox Assembly Tools (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018).