Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequence of the Bombyx mori genome, based on a collaboration between Southwest Agricultural University, China and the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan. Bombyx mori strain:p50T (= Dazao)

The international silkworm genome sequencing consortium is a joint collaboration of the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS) in Japan and the Southwest University in Chongqing City, China. The consortium has integrated the two independent whole genome shotgun (WGS) assemblies originally published in 2004 (BAAB00000000 and AADK00000000), resulting in a single high-quality WGS assembly with approximately 10x coverage of the Bombyx mori genome (BABH00000000). Genome browsers are available at KAIKObase and SilkDB. Scaffolds have been assembled into 28 linkage groups based on previously published linkage mapping (Yamamoto K et al. 2008), and are available for browsing at KAIKObase.