The birth of ant genomics

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

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5477-5478

  Gadagkar, Raghavendra ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT GENOME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT);

ANIMALS; ANTS; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMICS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 79955007494     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100765108     Document Type: Note

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