The first draft genomes of the ant Formica exsecta, and its Wolbachia endosymbiont reveal extensive gene transfer from endosymbiont to host

Genes and genomic processes underpinning the social lives of ants

(2018) Emeline Favreau et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

(2017) Daniel P. LePage et al.   NATURE

Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes

(2017) Filip Husnik et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Incidence ofWolbachiain aquatic insects

(2017) Eric J. Sazama et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Transcriptome sequencing reveals high isoform diversity in the ant Formica exsecta

(2017) Kishor Dhaygude et al.   PeerJ

GeneValidator: identify problems with protein-coding gene predictions

(2016) Monica-Andreea Drăgan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributes to the Evolution of Arthropod Herbivory

(2016) Nicky Wybouw et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomes of Candidatus Wolbachia Bourtzisii wDacA and Candidatus Wolbachia Pipientis wDacB from the Cochineal Insect Dactylopius coccus (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae)

(2016) S. T. Ramirez-Puebla et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Comparative Genomics of a Parthenogenesis-Inducing Wolbachia Symbiont

(2016) Amelia R. I. Lindsey et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Natal Dispersal, Mating Patterns, and Inbreeding in the Ant Formica exsecta

(2015) Emma I. K. Vitikainen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Broader prevalence of Wolbachia in insects including potential human disease vectors

(2015) C.D. de Oliveira et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

(2015) Nuala A. O'Leary et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

OrthoVenn: a web server for genome wide comparison and annotation of orthologous clusters across multiple species

(2015) Yi Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

SOAPdenovo-Trans: de novo transcriptome assembly with short RNA-Seq reads

(2014) Y. Xie et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Convergent Genetic Architecture Underlies Social Organization in Ants

(2014) Jessica Purcell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Patterns of Positive Selection in Seven Ant Genomes

(2014) Julien Roux et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Frequent, independent transfers of a catabolic gene from bacteria to contrasted filamentous eukaryotes

(2014) M. Bruto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Horizontal gene transfer in the acquisition of novel traits by metazoans

(2014) Luis Boto   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome Sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Trypanosomiasis

(2014) et al.   SCIENCE

Transposable element islands facilitate adaptation to novel environments in an invasive species

(2014) Lukas Schrader et al.   Nature Communications

Presence of Extensive Wolbachia Symbiont Insertions Discovered in the Genome of Its Host Glossina morsitans morsitans

(2014) Corey Brelsfoard et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Horizontal gene transfer from Agrobacterium to plants

(2014) Tatiana V. Matveeva et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Horizontal gene acquisitions by eukaryotes as drivers of adaptive evolution

(2013) Gerald Schönknecht et al.   BIOESSAYS

QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies

(2013) Alexey Gurevich et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

The impact of transposable elements in environmental adaptation

(2013) Elena Casacuberta et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia and the Bacterial Species Concept

(2013) Kirsten Maren Ellegaard et al.   PLoS Genetics

Blobology: exploring raw genome data for contaminants, symbionts and parasites using taxon-annotated GC-coverage plots

(2013) Sujai Kumar et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Next-generation sequencing and large genome assemblies

(2012) Joseph Henson et al.   PHARMACOGENOMICS

Widespread impact of horizontal gene transfer on plant colonization of land

(2012) Jipei Yue et al.   Nature Communications

MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects

(2011) Carson Holt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Taxonomically restricted genes are associated with the evolution of sociality in the honey bee

(2011) Brian R Johnson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Horizontal gene transfer in fungi

(2011) David A. Fitzpatrick   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Efficient de novo assembly of large genomes using compressed data structures

(2011) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The evolutionary origin of orphan genes

(2011) Diethard Tautz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

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

Horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and animals

(2011) Julie C. Dunning Hotopp   TRENDS IN GENETICS

UniProt Knowledgebase: a hub of integrated protein data

(2011) M. Magrane et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

CD-HIT Suite: a web server for clustering and comparing biological sequences

(2010) Ying Huang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Chromosome numbers in the genus Formica with special reference to the taxonomical position of Formica uralensis Ruzsk. and Formica truncorum Fabr.

(2010) MARITA ROSENGREN et al.   HEREDITAS

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

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

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

Genome-Wide Patterns of Adaptation to Temperate Environments Associated with Transposable Elements in Drosophila

(2010) Josefa González et al.   PLoS Genetics

Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

(2010) Naruo Nikoh et al.   PLoS Genetics

TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq

(2009) Cole Trapnell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer

(2009) Naruo Nikoh et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Fourmidable: a database for ant genomics

(2009) Yannick Wurm et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Horizontal gene transfer between Wolbachia and the mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2009) Lisa Klasson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Rapid Evolution of Immune Proteins in Social Insects

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

PROSITE, a protein domain database for functional characterization and annotation

(2009) Christian J. A. Sigrist et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Insertion of Horizontally Transferred Genes within Conserved Syntenic Regions of Yeast Genomes

(2009) Thomas Rolland et al.   PLoS One

The mosaic genome structure of the Wolbachia wRi strain infecting Drosophila simulans

(2009) L. Klasson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Longicorn beetle that vectors pinewood nematode carries many Wolbachia genes on an autosome

(2009) T. Aikawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The evolution of genome size in ants

(2008) Neil D Tsutsui et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

An Ancient Horizontal Gene Transfer between Mosquito and the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia pipientis

(2008) Megan Woolfit et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: Evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genes

(2007) N. Nikoh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH