Obligate mutualism within a host drives the extreme specialization of a fig wasp genome

Climate warming and the potential extinction of fig wasps, the obligate pollinators of figs

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The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism

(2013) Isheng J. Tsai et al.   NATURE

A heterozygous moth genome provides insights into herbivory and detoxification

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Evolutionary Implications of Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2012) Michael Syvanen   Annual Review of Genetics

A Fructose Receptor Functions as a Nutrient Sensor in the Drosophila Brain

(2012) Tetsuya Miyamoto et al.   CELL

Ecological interactions drive evolutionary loss of traits

(2012) Jacintha Ellers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

LARGE-SCALE CANDIDATE GENE SCAN REVEALS THE ROLE OF CHEMORECEPTOR GENES IN HOST PLANT SPECIALIZATION AND SPECIATION IN THE PEA APHID

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Disentangling the relationship between sex-biased gene expression and X-linkage

(2012) R. P. Meisel et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

(2012) Astrid Cruaud et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Odorant Binding Proteins of the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta: An Example of the Problems Facing the Analysis of Widely Divergent Proteins

(2011) Dietrich Gotzek et al.   PLoS One

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

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

The evolution of mutualism

(2010) E. G. LEIGH Jr   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

Maternal Control of Haplodiploid Sex Determination in the Wasp Nasonia

(2010) E. C. Verhulst et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Large Gene Family Expansions and Adaptive Evolution for Odorant and Gustatory Receptors in the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2009) C. Smadja et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

(2009) Ruiqiang Li et al.   NATURE

Wind-borne insects mediate directional pollen transfer between desert fig trees 160 kilometers apart

(2009) S. Ahmed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SOAP: short oligonucleotide alignment program

(2008) R. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genes for Host-Plant Selection inDrosophila

(2008) Takashi Matsuo   JOURNAL OF NEUROGENETICS

Genome Evolution of Wolbachia Strain wPip from the Culex pipiens Group

(2008) L. Klasson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Assessing the gene space in draft genomes

(2008) Genis Parra et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bridging the Synaptic Gap: Neuroligins and Neurexin I in Apis mellifera

(2008) Sunita Biswas et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny-Aware Gap Placement Prevents Errors in Sequence Alignment and Evolutionary Analysis

(2008) A. Loytynoja et al.   SCIENCE