Musa balbisiana
Mbal Musaceae Zingiberales

Musa balbisiana

22 2n Chromosomes
Musaceae Family
Taxonomic Classification
Kingdom Plantae Phylum Liliopsida (Monocots) Class Liliopsida Order Zingiberales Family Musaceae
Genome & Ploidy
2n
22 chromosomes
Polyploidy History (PhyloWGD)
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Species Notes
Description
Musa balbisiana, also known simply as plantain, is a wild-type species of banana. It is one of the ancestors of modern cultivated bananas, along with Musa acuminata.
Data source
build_pgdd_species_jsons.py
Wikipedia
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Image credit
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Protein sequences
FASTA (.pep) — amino acid sequences for all annotated genes
Gene coordinates
BED format — chromosomal positions for MCScanX input
Coding sequences
FASTA (.cds) — nucleotide CDS for Ka/Ks analysis
Gene type annotations
TSV — gene duplication classifications
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Analysis Tools
Synteny & Collinearity
Evolutionary Analysis
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