A Draft Sequence for the Genome of the Domesticated Silkworm ( <i>Bombyx mori</i> )
Biology analysis group(BGI Group (China)), Qingyou Xia(BGI Group (China)), Zeyang Zhou(BGI Group (China)), Cheng Lu(BGI Group (China)), Daojun Cheng(BGI Group (China)), Fangyin Dai(BGI Group (China)), Bin Li(BGI Group (China)), Ping Zhao(BGI Group (China)), Xingfu Zha(BGI Group (China)), Tingcai Cheng(BGI Group (China)), Chunli Chai(BGI Group (China)), Guoqing Pan(BGI Group (China)), Jinshan Xu(BGI Group (China)), Chun Liu(BGI Group (China)), Ying Lin(BGI Group (China)), Jifeng Qian(BGI Group (China)), Yong Hou(BGI Group (China)), Zhengli Wu(BGI Group (China)), Guanrong Li(BGI Group (China)), Min‐Hui Pan(BGI Group (China)), Chunfeng Li(BGI Group (China)), Yihong Shen(BGI Group (China)), Xiqian Lan(BGI Group (China)), Lianwei Yuan(BGI Group (China)), Li Tian(BGI Group (China)), Hanfu Xu(BGI Group (China)), Guangwei Yang(BGI Group (China)), Yongji Wan(BGI Group (China)), Yong Zhu(BGI Group (China)), Maode Yu(BGI Group (China)), Weide Shen(BGI Group (China)), Dayang Wu(BGI Group (China)), Xiang Zhonghuai(BGI Group (China)), Genome analysis group(BGI Group (China)), Jun Yu(BGI Group (China)), Jun Wang(BGI Group (China)), Ruiqiang Li(BGI Group (China)), Jianping Shi(BGI Group (China)), Heng Li(BGI Group (China)), Guangyuan Li(BGI Group (China)), Jianning Su(BGI Group (China)), Xiaoling Wang(BGI Group (China)), Guoqing Li(BGI Group (China)), Zengjin Zhang(BGI Group (China)), Qingfa Wu(BGI Group (China)), Jun Li(BGI Group (China)), Qingpeng Zhang(BGI Group (China)), Ning Wei(BGI Group (China)), Jianzhe Xu(BGI Group (China)), Haibo Sun(BGI Group (China)), Le Dong(BGI Group (China)), Dongyuan Liu(BGI Group (China)), Shengli Zhao(BGI Group (China)), Xiaolan Zhao(BGI Group (China)), Qingshun Meng(BGI Group (China)), Fengdi Lan(BGI Group (China)), Xiangang Huang(BGI Group (China)), Yuanzhe Li(BGI Group (China)), Lin Fang(BGI Group (China)), Changfeng Li(BGI Group (China)), Dawei Li(BGI Group (China)), Yongqiao Sun(BGI Group (China)), Zhenpeng Zhang(BGI Group (China)), Yang Zheng(BGI Group (China)), Yanqing Huang(BGI Group (China)), Yan Xi(BGI Group (China)), Qiuhui Qi(BGI Group (China)), Dandan He(BGI Group (China)), Haiyan Huang(BGI Group (China)), Xiaowei Zhang(BGI Group (China)), Zhiqiang Wang(BGI Group (China)), Wenjie Li(BGI Group (China)), Yuzhu Cao(BGI Group (China)), Yingpu Yu(BGI Group (China)), Hong Yu(BGI Group (China)), Jinhong Li(BGI Group (China)), Jiehua Ye(BGI Group (China)), Huan Chen(BGI Group (China)), Yan Zhou(BGI Group (China)), Bin Liu(BGI Group (China)), Jing Wang(BGI Group (China)), Ye Jia(BGI Group (China)), Ji Hai(BGI Group (China)), Shengting Li(BGI Group (China)), Peixiang Ni(BGI Group (China)), Jianguo Zhang(BGI Group (China)), Yong Zhang(BGI Group (China)), Hongkun Zheng(BGI Group (China)), Bingyu Mao(BGI Group (China)), Wen Wang(BGI Group (China)), Chen Ye(BGI Group (China)), Songgang Li(BGI Group (China)), Jian Wang(BGI Group (China)), Gane Ka‐Shu Wong(BGI Group (China)), Huanming Yang(BGI Group (China))
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Abstract
We report a draft sequence for the genome of the domesticated silkworm ( Bombyx mori ), covering 90.9% of all known silkworm genes. Our estimated gene count is 18,510, which exceeds the 13,379 genes reported for Drosophila melanogaster . Comparative analyses to fruitfly, mosquito, spider, and butterfly reveal both similarities and differences in gene content.