Characterizing the Infection-Induced Transcriptome of Nasonia vitripennis Reveals a Preponderance of Taxonomically-Restricted Immune Genes

Mechanisms and Dynamics of Orphan Gene Emergence in Insect Genomes

(2013) Lothar Wissler et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Accelerated Evolution of Innate Immunity Proteins in Social Insects: Adaptive Evolution or Relaxed Constraint?

(2013) Brock A. Harpur et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Differential gene expression inAcromyrmexleaf-cutting ants after challenges with two fungal pathogens

(2013) Sze H. Yek et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transcriptional Response of Honey Bee Larvae Infected with the Bacterial Pathogen Paenibacillus larvae

(2013) Robert Scott Cornman et al.   PLoS One

The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia

(2013) R. M. Brucker et al.   SCIENCE

De Novo ORFs in Drosophila Are Important to Organismal Fitness and Evolved Rapidly from Previously Non-coding Sequences

(2013) Josephine A. Reinhardt et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

(2013) Daehwan Kim et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

RSeQC: quality control of RNA-seq experiments

(2012) Liguo Wang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative genomics analysis of five families of antimicrobial peptide-like genes in seven ant species

(2012) Zhenting Zhang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Functional Characterization of the Infection-Inducible Peptide Edin in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Leena-Maija Vanha-aho et al.   PLoS One

Insect Innate Immunity Database (IIID): An Annotation Tool for Identifying Immune Genes in Insect Genomes

(2012) Robert M. Brucker et al.   PLoS One

Pathogen Webs in Collapsing Honey Bee Colonies

(2012) R. Scott Cornman et al.   PLoS One

The genome of the leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex echinatiorsuggests key adaptations to advanced social life and fungus farming

(2011) Sanne Nygaard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Host genotype changes bidirectional to unidirectional cytoplasmic incompatibility in Nasonia longicornis

(2011) R Raychoudhury et al.   HEREDITY

Evidence of a novel immune responsive protein in the Hymenoptera

(2011) Štefan Albert et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Adaptive Evolution of a Novel Drosophila Lectin Induced by Parasitic Wasp Attack

(2011) E. S. Keebaugh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

(2011) Y. Wurm 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 genomic impact of 100 million years of social evolution in seven ant species

(2011) Jürgen Gadau et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Bees brought to their knees: microbes affecting honey bee health

(2011) Jay D. Evans et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Exceptional Diversity, Maintenance of Polymorphism, and Recent Directional Selection on the APL1 Malaria Resistance Genes of Anopheles gambiae

(2011) Susan M. Rottschaefer et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Antimicrobial peptide-like genes in Nasonia vitripennis: a genomic perspective

(2010) Caihuan Tian et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transcriptional responses in Honey Bee larvae infected with chalkbrood fungus

(2010) Katherine A Aronstein et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Decoupling of Host-Symbiont-Phage Coadaptations Following Transfer Between Insect Species

(2010) M. E. Chafee et al.   GENETICS

Stampy: A statistical algorithm for sensitive and fast mapping of Illumina sequence reads

(2010) G. Lunter et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genomic Comparison of the Ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator

(2010) R. Bonasio et al.   SCIENCE

Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Differential expression analysis for sequence count data

(2010) Simon Anders et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The innate immune and systemic response in honey bees to a bacterial pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae

(2009) Queenie WT Chan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Comparative profiling of the transcriptional response to infection in two species of Drosophila by short-read cDNA sequencing

(2009) Timothy B Sackton et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Recent de novo origin of human protein-coding genes

(2009) D. G. Knowles et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Rapid Evolution of Immune Proteins in Social Insects

(2009) L. Viljakainen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Leucine-Rich Repeat Protein Complex Activates Mosquito Complement in Defense Against Plasmodium Parasites

(2009) M. Povelones et al.   SCIENCE

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Fast Statistical Alignment

(2009) Robert K. Bradley et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System

(2009) Darren J. Obbard et al.   PLoS Genetics

De Novo Origination of a New Protein-Coding Gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2008) J. Cai et al.   GENETICS

On the origin of new genes in Drosophila

(2008) Q. Zhou et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Origin of Primate Orphan Genes: A Comparative Genomics Approach

(2008) M. Toll-Riera et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of Genes and Repeats in the Nimrod Superfamily

(2008) K. Somogyi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Patterns of Positive Selection in Six Mammalian Genomes

(2008) Carolin Kosiol et al.   PLoS Genetics

Microarray analyses reveal distinct roles for Rel proteins in the Drosophila immune response

(2007) Subhamoy Pal et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY