Biomics

The analysis of the nuclear and the mitochondrial genomes of the honey bee Apis mellifera in comparison with genomes of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster were showed in this article. The nuclear genome of the honey bee has about 245 millions b. p. which distributed in 16 chromosomes and contains about 10 thousands genes. The mitochondrial genome of the honey bee has about 16 thousands b. p. which located in mitochondrions and contains 35 genes. Despite the full sequencing of the nuclear and the mitochondrial genomes of the honey bee Apis mellifera the function of most genes and loci not clear yet.

nuclear genome, mitochondrial genome, Apis mellifera, honey bee, genes, chromosomes.

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