Evolution of the Insect Desaturase Gene Family with an Emphasis on Social Hymenoptera

Dissecting ant recognition systems in the age of genomics

(2013) N. D. Tsutsui   Biology Letters

Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

(2013) D. F. Simola et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones

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Validation of Reference Genes in Solenopsis invicta in Different Developmental Stages, Castes and Tissues

(2013) Daifeng Cheng et al.   PLoS One

Vitellogenin Underwent Subfunctionalization to Acquire Caste and Behavioral Specific Expression in the Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

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TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

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Involvement of Arabidopsis ACYL-COENZYME A DESATURASE-LIKE2 (At2g31360) in the Biosynthesis of the Very-Long-Chain Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Components of Membrane Lipids

(2012) M. A. Smith et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Caenorhabditis elegansΔ12-Desaturase FAT-2 Is a Bifunctional Desaturase Able to Desaturate a Diverse Range of Fatty Acid Substrates at the Δ12 and Δ15 Positions

(2011) Xue-Rong Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Signatures of selection and sex-specific expression variation of a novel duplicate during the evolution of the Drosophila desaturase gene family

(2011) MARIA C. KEAYS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution of Insect Olfaction

(2011) Bill S. Hansson et al.   NEURON

Rapid Evolution of Coral Proteins Responsible for Interaction with the Environment

(2011) Christian R. Voolstra et al.   PLoS One

Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)

(2011) C. D. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expression of a desaturase gene, desat1, in neural and nonneural tissues separately affects perception and emission of sex pheromones in Drosophila

(2011) F. Bousquet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

(2011) C. R. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

(2011) J. K. Colbourne et al.   SCIENCE

The genomic impact of 100 million years of social evolution in seven ant species

(2011) Jürgen Gadau et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genomic Comparison of the Ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator

(2010) R. Bonasio et al.   SCIENCE

A Review of Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons

(2009) Stephen Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Reference Gene Selection for Insect Expression Studies Using Quantitative Real-Time PCR: The Head of the Honeybee,Apis mellifera, After a Bacterial Challenge

(2009) Bieke Scharlaken et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Molecular Evolution and Functional Diversification of Fatty Acid Desaturases after Recurrent Gene Duplication in Drosophila

(2009) S. Fang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

THE LOCI OF EVOLUTION: HOW PREDICTABLE IS GENETIC EVOLUTION?

(2008) David L. Stern et al.   EVOLUTION

Isolation and functional characterization of two independently-evolved fatty acid Δ12-desaturase genes from insects

(2008) X.-R. Zhou et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Drosophilachemoreceptor gene evolution: selection, specialization and genome size

(2008) ANASTASIA GARDINER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS

InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

(2008) S. Hunter et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The evolution of pheromone diversity

(2008) Matthew R.E. Symonds et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Novel Gene Family Controls Species-Specific Morphological Traits in Hydra

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