Genome organization and molecular characterization of the three Formica exsecta viruses—FeV1, FeV2 and FeV4

Distribution of oribatid mites is moisture-related within red wood ant Formica polyctena nest mounds

(2018) Riikka A. Elo et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Comparison of ant-associated beetle communities inhabiting mounds of forest-dwelling ants in forests and forest clearings

(2018) Salla K. Härkönen et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Trends in bacterial and fungal communities in ant nests observed with Terminal-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques—validity and compatibility in ecological studies

(2018) Stafva Lindström et al.   PeerJ

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Dicistroviridae

(2017) S. M Valles et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Iflaviridae

(2017) S. M Valles et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Transcriptome sequencing reveals high isoform diversity in the ant Formica exsecta

(2017) Kishor Dhaygude et al.   PeerJ

A metatranscriptomic survey of the invasive yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes, identifies several potential viral and bacterial pathogens and mutualists

(2016) M. Cooling et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Redefining the invertebrate RNA virosphere

(2016) Mang Shi et al.   NATURE

Isolation and characterization of Nylanderia fulva virus 1, a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus infecting the tawny crazy ant, Nylanderia fulva

(2016) Steven M. Valles et al.   VIROLOGY

Invasive ants carry novel viruses in their new range and form reservoirs for a honeybee pathogen

(2015) Alexandra Sébastien et al.   Biology Letters

Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies

(2015) Gideon J Mordecai et al.   ISME Journal

Caste-biases in gene expression are specific to developmental stage in the antFormica exsecta

(2015) C. Morandin et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complete genome sequence and structural characterization of a novel iflavirus isolated from Opsiphanes invirae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

(2015) Leonardo A. Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Diverse Array of New Viral Sequences Identified in Worldwide Populations of the Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri) Using Viral Metagenomics

(2015) Shahideh Nouri et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

RNA virus discovery in insects

(2015) Sijun Liu et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Honey bee colony losses and associated viruses

(2015) Alexander J McMenamin et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

No Evidence of Enemy Release in Pathogen and Microbial Communities of Common Wasps (Vespula vulgaris) in Their Native and Introduced Range

(2015) Philip J. Lester et al.   PLoS One

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Not Only for Egg Yolk—Functional and Evolutionary Insights from Expression, Selection, and Structural Analyses of Formica Ant Vitellogenins

(2014) Claire Morandin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Standards for Sequencing Viral Genomes in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing

(2014) J. T. Ladner et al.   mBio

Varroa-Virus Interaction in Collapsing Honey Bee Colonies

(2013) Roy M. Francis et al.   PLoS One

A Metatranscriptomic Approach to the Identification of Microbiota Associated with the Ant Formica exsecta

(2013) Helena Johansson et al.   PLoS One

Cross-species transmission of honey bee viruses in associated arthropods

(2013) Abby L. Levitt et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH

Oases: robust de novo RNA-seq assembly across the dynamic range of expression levels

(2012) Marcel H. Schulz et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Primer-BLAST: A tool to design target-specific primers for polymerase chain reaction

(2012) Jian Ye et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Dead or Alive: Deformed Wing Virus and Varroa destructor Reduce the Life Span of Winter Honeybees

(2011) Benjamin Dainat et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Acaricide Treatment Affects Viral Dynamics in Varroa destructor-Infested Honey Bee Colonies via both Host Physiology and Mite Control

(2011) Barbara Locke et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

INBREEDING AND REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT IN THE ANT FORMICA EXSECTA

(2011) Emma Vitikainen et al.   EVOLUTION

Multiple virus infections occur in individual polygyne and monogyne Solenopsis invicta ants

(2011) Clare Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

ViPR: an open bioinformatics database and analysis resource for virology research

(2011) Brett E. Pickett et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

High-throughput verification of transcriptional starting sites by Deep-RACE

(2009) Signe Olivarius et al.   BIOTECHNIQUES

Fourmidable: a database for ant genomics

(2009) Yannick Wurm et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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(2009) Joachim R. de Miranda et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

The Dicistroviridae: An emerging family of invertebrate viruses

(2009) Bryony C. Bonning   VIROLOGICA SINICA

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Fitness and the level of homozygosity in a social insect

(2008) C. HAAG-LIAUTARD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Detection of Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) genome and its replicative RNA form in various hosts and possible ways of spread

(2008) Olivier Celle et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH