In the US, the project is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Illinois Sociogenomics Initiative, and various beekeepers association and the bee industry.
The complete genome of Apis mellifera has been sequenced and consists of 10,000 genes with approximately 236 million base pairs.
[2] The Western honey bee gene sequence showed 163 chemical receptors for smell but only 10 for taste.
[3] The population genetic analysis showed Africa as the origin and hypothesized that the spread into Europe happened in at least two independent waves.
[5] BeeSpace led by the University of Illinois[6] is an effort to complete a web navigable catalog of related information.