Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5667-5672

  Smith, Chris R ^a   Smith, Christopher D ^b   Robertson, Hugh M ^c   Helmkampf, Martin ^d   Zimin, Aleksey ^e   Yandell, Mark ^f   Holt, Carson ^f   Hu, Hao ^f   Abouheif, Ehab ^g   Benton, Richard ^h   Cash, Elizabeth ^d   Croset, Vincent ^h   Currie, Cameron R ⁱ   Elhaik, Eran ⁱ   Elsik, Christine G ^j   Favé, Marie Julie ^g   Fernandes, Vilaiwan ^g   Gibson, Joshua D ^d   Graur, Dan ^l   Gronenberg, Wulfila ^m   Grubbs, Kirk J ⁱ   Hagen, Darren E ^k   Viniegra, Ana Sofia Ibarraran ^g   Johnson, Brian R ⁿ   Johnson, Reed M ^o   Khila, Abderrahman ^g   Kim, Jay W ^b   Mathis, Kaitlyn A ⁿ   Munoz Torres, Monica C ^k   Murphy, Marguerite C ^b   Mustard, Julie A ^d   Nakamura, Rin ^b   Niehuis, Oliver ^p   Nigam, Surabhi ^b   Overson, Rick P ^d   Placek, Jennifer E ^b   Rajakumar, Rajendhran ^g   Reese, Justin T ^k   Suen, Garret ⁱ   Tao, Shu ^k   Torres, Candice W ⁿ   Tsutsui, Neil D ⁿ   Viljakainen, Lumi ^q   Wolschind, Florian ^r   Gadau, Jürgen ^d   more..

^a EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Maryland   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l University of Houston   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^p ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^q Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^r NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Chemoreceptor; De novo genome; Eusociality; Genomic evolution; Social insect

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; BEETLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CPG ISLAND; DNA CONTENT; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; HONEYBEE; INSECT GENOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PYROSEQUENCING; WASP;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS;

EID: 79955002712     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007901108     Document Type: Article

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