De Novo Genome Assembly of Chinese Plateau Honeybee Unravels Intraspecies Genetic Diversity in the Eastern Honeybee, .

, widely distributed in the southeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is considered an excellent model to study the phenotype and genetic variation for highland adaptation of Asian honeybee. Herein, we assembled and annotated the chromosome-scale assembly genome of with the help of PacBio, Illumina and Hi-C sequencing technologies in order to identify the genome differences between the and the published genomes of different strains. The sequencing methods, assembly and annotation strategies of were more comprehensive than previously published genomes.