Transcriptomics and neuroanatomy of the clonal raider ant implicate an expanded clade of odorant receptors in chemical communication

Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

(2016) Marek Borowiec   ZooKeys

Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality

(2015) Xiaofan Zhou et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Cuticular Hydrocarbon Pheromones for Social Behavior and Their Coding in the Ant Antenna

(2015) Kavita R. Sharma et al.   Cell Reports

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative genomics and transcriptomics in ants provide new insights into the evolution and function of odorant binding and chemosensory proteins

(2014) Sean K McKenzie et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Genome of the Clonal Raider Ant Cerapachys biroi

(2014) Peter R. Oxley et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comparative Transcriptomics of Convergent Evolution: Different Genes but Conserved Pathways Underlie Caste Phenotypes across Lineages of Eusocial Insects

(2014) Ali J. Berens et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Patterns of Positive Selection in Seven Ant Genomes

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

Niemann-Pick type C2 protein mediating chemical communication in the worker ant

(2014) Y. Ishida et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dissecting ant recognition systems in the age of genomics

(2013) N. D. Tsutsui   Biology Letters

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Intracolony chemical communication in social insects

(2013) F.-J. Richard et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Estimating Gene Gain and Loss Rates in the Presence of Error in Genome Assembly and Annotation Using CAFE 3

(2013) Mira V. Han et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The importance of genomic novelty in social evolution

(2013) Seirian Sumner   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ligands for Pheromone-Sensing Neurons Are Not Conformationally Activated Odorant Binding Proteins

(2013) Carolina Gomez-Diaz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes

(2013) Sarah D Kocher et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Ant genomics sheds light on the molecular regulation of social organization

(2013) Romain Libbrecht et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Odorant Reception in Insects: Roles of Receptors, Binding Proteins, and Degrading Enzymes

(2012) Walter S. Leal   Annual Review of Entomology

DLRS: gene tree evolution in light of a species tree

(2012) Joel Sjöstrand et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Asexual reproduction in introduced and native populations of the antCerapachys biroi

(2012) Daniel J. C. Kronauer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks

(2012) Cole Trapnell et al.   Nature Protocols

Chemical Discrimination and Aggressiveness via Cuticular Hydrocarbons in a Supercolony-Forming Ant, Formica yessensis

(2012) Midori Kidokoro-Kobayashi et al.   PLoS One

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Chemosensory Receptors in a Pair of Divergent Ant Species Reveals Sex-Specific Signatures of Odor Coding

(2012) Xiaofan Zhou et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

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 insect chemoreceptor superfamily of the parasitoid jewel waspNasonia vitripennis

(2010) H. M. Robertson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Sex-specific antennal sensory system in the ant Camponotus japonicus: Glomerular organizations of antennal lobes

(2010) Aki Nakanishi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

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

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Parallel Olfactory Systems in Insects: Anatomy and Function

(2009) C. Giovanni Galizia et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Apollo: a community resource for genome annotation editing

(2009) E. Lee et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq

(2009) Cole Trapnell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Sex-specific antennal sensory system in the ant Camponotus japonicus: structure and distribution of sensilla on the flagellum

(2009) Aki Nakanishi et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Phenotypic plasticity in number of glomeruli and sensory innervation of the antennal lobe in leaf-cutting ant workers (A. vollenweideri)

(2009) Christina Kelber et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

A Review of Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons

(2009) Stephen Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Caste- and sex-specific adaptations within the olfactory pathway in the brain of the ant Camponotus floridanus

(2008) Christina Zube et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Primer Pheromones in Social Hymenoptera

(2007) Yves Le Conte et al.   Annual Review of Entomology