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Name: Apis melifera
Common name: Honeybee

Description: any other discussion or useful background? (optional)

Note: Maybe you don't know a lot of the things below - but, that's OK! The criteria are that (a) the choice is reasonable, and (b) the rationale is clear. What we want is a "reasonable estimate" (or, "best guess") - if you were to use a number in a paper, what would you use and how would you justify it to your collaborators? For instance, for "generation time", best would be to cite a paper that actually measures or estimates generation time. But most species don't have this; next best would be to give a number used in the literature, and provide a citation that used it (and hopefully the publication gives a justification also). Lacking this, you might provide a number from a related species (and a citation for this).

Here is the checklist of things that we need to add a species to the catalogue. Each thing should be provided, with a justification (maybe short) and a citation.

Demographic information:

[] generation time in years 2
[] "default" population size 200,000

Chromosome structure:

Note: The assembly should be chromosome-level, i.e., not composed of thousands of scaffolds.

[] ensembl assembly ID or, if the assembly is not in Ensembl, a list of chromosomes with name and length (in bp)

Note: species in Ensembl can be found in one of these lists: vertebrates, "metazoa", plants, fungi, protists, or bacteria.

Recombination rates:

[] genetic map of recombination rates (as a hapmap or csv file)
[] genome-wide mean recombination rate (which will be used as the default)

Mutation rate:

[] genome-wide mean mutation rate

Demographic model:

[] as a list of population sizes, growth rates, migration rates, etcetera. (optional)
[] citation

Other information:

These are things we don't currently use, but will want to use in the future:

[] sex determination system, and which chromosomes are the sex chromosome(s)
[] ploidy

popsim-consortium / stdpopsim

Honeybee #829