Phylogenomics and Divergence Dating of Fungus-Farming Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Genera Sericomyrmex and Apterostigma

The Most Relictual Fungus-Farming Ant Species Cultivates the Most Recently Evolved and Highly Domesticated Fungal Symbiont Species

(2015) Ted R. Schultz et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Variable interaction specificity and symbiont performance in Panamanian Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmexfungus-growing ants

(2014) Henrik H De Fine Licht et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data

(2014) Ralph S Peters et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

(2014) Christine G Elsik et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A Social Parasite Evolved Reproductive Isolation from Its Fungus-Growing Ant Host in Sympatry

(2014) Christian Rabeling et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Population genomics of eusocial insects: the costs of a vertebrate-like effective population size

(2014) J. Romiguier et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Role of Fusion in Ant Chromosome Evolution: Insights from Cytogenetic Analysis Using a Molecular Phylogenetic Approach in the Genus Mycetophylax

(2014) Danon Clemes Cardoso et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2014) PHILIP S. WARD et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Assessing De Novo transcriptome assembly metrics for consistency and utility

(2013) Shawn T O’Neil et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps

(2013) Brian R. Johnson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Prudent inquilines and proactive hosts: behavioral dynamics between an ant social parasite, Megalomyrmex symmetochus and its fungus-growing ant host, Sericomyrmex amabilis

(2013) G. Bruner et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

The Impact of Gene Duplication, Insertion, Deletion, Lateral Gene Transfer and Sequencing Error on Orthology Inference: A Simulation Study

(2013) Daniel A. Dalquen et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptome Characterisation of the Ant Formica exsecta with New Insights into the Evolution of Desaturase Genes in Social Hymenoptera

(2013) Hélène Badouin et al.   PLoS One

Chemically armed mercenary ants protect fungus-farming societies

(2013) R. M. M. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PhyloBayes MPI: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Infinite Mixtures of Profiles in a Parallel Environment

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative description of ten transcriptomes of newly sequenced invertebrates and efficiency estimation of genomic sampling in non-model taxa

(2012) Ana Riesgo et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Improving Phylogenetic Inference with a Semiempirical Amino Acid Substitution Model

(2012) S. Zoller et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants

(2012) Natasha J. Mehdiabadi et al.   Nature Communications

A comparative study of exocrine gland chemistry in Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex fungus-growing ants

(2011) Rachelle M.M. Adams et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY

The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

(2011) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Some Fungus-Growing Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Northeastern Mexico

(2011) Sergio R. Sanchez-Peña   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

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

(2011) Sanne Nygaard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data

(2011) Peter Rehm et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Cryptic sexual populations account for genetic diversity and ecological success in a widely distributed, asexual fungus-growing ant

(2011) C. Rabeling 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 Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Population-level transcriptome sequencing of nonmodel organisms Erynnis propertius and Papilio zelicaon

(2010) Shawn T O'Neil et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The four hexamerin genes in the honey bee: structure, molecular evolution and function deduced from expression patterns in queens, workers and drones

(2010) Juliana R Martins et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genomics and Peptidomics of Neuropeptides and Protein Hormones Present in the Parasitic WaspNasonia vitripennis∥

(2010) Frank Hauser et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Hymenoptera Genome Database: integrated community resources for insect species of the order Hymenoptera

(2010) M. C. Munoz-Torres et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

OMA 2011: orthology inference among 1000 complete genomes

(2010) A. M. Altenhoff et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens

(2010) Ulrich G. Mueller et al.   PLoS One

Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

(2010) E. F. Kirkness et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic Comparison of the Ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator

(2010) R. Bonasio et al.   SCIENCE

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Algorithm of OMA for large-scale orthology inference

(2008) Alexander CJ Roth et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

(2008) T. R. Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA