https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(19)30165-9

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The Western honeybee *Apis mellifera* is a species of enormous importance
to farming and ecology and occupies a unique place in human culture due to
production of honey and other hive products. The honeybee is also an
important model organism for studying the genetics of behaviour and
cognition, the regulation and maintenance of complex societies, and how
species with complex societies evolved. A new genome assembly (Amel_HAv3.1)
was produced using a hybrid approach combining long-read sequencing
(PacBio), linked-read sequencing (10x Chromium), optical mapping (BioNano),
chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C), and a genetic linkage map. This
resulted in a >100-fold improvement in contiguity compared with the
previous assembly and each of the 16 chromosomes is now represented by a
single scaffold. The new genome will be instrumental in uncovering the
molecular mechanisms of disease resistance in honeybees and will allow us
to probe the connection between complex phenotypes and genetics in much
greater detail.

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