Transcriptome sequencing reveals high isoform diversity in the ant Formica exsecta

Diversity of fungi from the mound nests of Formica ulkei and adjacent non-nest soils

(2016) Lyndon B. Duff et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

FlyBase at 25: looking to the future

(2016) L. Sian Gramates et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Comparison of De Novo Transcriptome Assemblers and k-mer Strategies Using the Killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus

(2016) Satshil B. Rana et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNAs in Honey Bee Caste Determination

(2016) Regan Ashby et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Optimal assembly strategies of transcriptome related to ploidies of eukaryotic organisms

(2015) Bin He et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

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

Hymenoptera Genome Database: integrating genome annotations in HymenopteraMine

(2015) Christine G. Elsik et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

(2015) K. M. Kapheim et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetic (re)programming of caste-specific behavior in the ant Camponotus floridanus

(2015) D. F. Simola et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetic variation in the Egfr gene generates quantitative variation in a complex trait in ants

(2015) Sebastian Alvarado et al.   Nature Communications

The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

(2015) Ben M Sadd et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

(2014) Y. Xie et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2014) Christine G Elsik et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The role of chromatin and epigenetics in the polyphenisms of ant castes

(2014) R. Bonasio   Briefings in Functional Genomics

The Genome of the Clonal Raider Ant Cerapachys biroi

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

Molecular evolution of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors in long-lived, small-bodied mammals

(2014) Kalina T.J. Davies et al.   GENE

RNA-seq Reveals Transcriptomic Shock Involving Transposable Elements Reactivation in Hybrids of Young Lake Whitefish Species

(2014) Anne-Marie Dion-Côté et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm

(2014) Takashi Kiuchi et al.   NATURE

Eusocial insects as emerging models for behavioural epigenetics

(2014) Hua Yan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The rise of regulatory RNA

(2014) Kevin V. Morris et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Combining Transcriptome Assemblies from Multiple De Novo Assemblers in the Allo-Tetraploid Plant Nicotiana benthamiana

(2014) Kenlee Nakasugi et al.   PLoS One

The Impacts of Read Length and Transcriptome Complexity for De Novo Assembly: A Simulation Study

(2014) Zheng Chang et al.   PLoS One

Population genomics of the honey bee reveals strong signatures of positive selection on worker traits

(2014) B. A. Harpur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Lukas Schrader et al.   Nature Communications

Brain transcriptome sequencing and assembly of three songbird model systems for the study of social behavior

(2014) Christopher N. Balakrishnan et al.   PeerJ

Epigenomics and the control of fate, form and function in social insects

(2014) Mat Welch et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Assessing De Novo transcriptome assembly metrics for consistency and utility

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

Mechanisms and Dynamics of Orphan Gene Emergence in Insect Genomes

(2013) Lothar Wissler et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Intracolony chemical communication in social insects

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

Long-Term Survival of High Quality Sperm: Insights into the Sperm Proteome of the Honeybee Apis mellifera

(2013) Reza Zareie et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Gene expression patterns associated with caste and reproductive status in ants: worker-specific genes are more derived than queen-specific ones

(2013) B. Feldmeyer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Insights into the Evolution of the CSP Gene Family through the Integration of Evolutionary Analysis and Comparative Protein Modeling

(2013) Jonna Kulmuni 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

Mining RNA–Seq Data for Infections and Contaminations

(2013) Thomas Bonfert 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

Genetic underpinnings of division of labor in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

(2013) H. Michael G. Lattorff et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A quantitative reference transcriptome for Nematostella vectensis early embryonic development: a pipeline for de novo assembly in emerging model systems

(2013) Sarah Tulin et al.   EvoDevo

Vitellogenin Underwent Subfunctionalization to Acquire Caste and Behavioral Specific Expression in the Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

(2013) Miguel Corona et al.   PLoS Genetics

RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity Requires the Cytosine Methyltransferase Dnmt2

(2013) Jafar Kiani et al.   PLoS Genetics

Function and Evolution of DNA Methylation in Nasonia vitripennis

(2013) Xu Wang et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

(2013) Sarah D Kocher et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Transcriptome analyses of primitively eusocial wasps reveal novel insights into the evolution of sociality and the origin of alternative phenotypes

(2013) Pedro G Ferreira et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

(2012) Marcel H. Schulz et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Diversity, abundance, and sex-specific expression of chemosensory proteins in the reproductive organs of the locust Locusta migratoria manilensis

(2012) Xian-Hong Zhou et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Quantitative RNA-Seq analysis in non-model species: assessing transcriptome assemblies as a scaffold and the utility of evolutionary divergent genomic reference species

(2012) Emily A Hornett et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Expressed Pseudogenes in the Transcriptional Landscape of Human Cancers

(2012) Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram et al.   CELL

GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project

(2012) J. Harrow et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Transcriptome Sequencing and Characterization for the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka, 1867)

(2012) Huixia Du et al.   PLoS One

Optimizing de novo transcriptome assembly from short-read RNA-Seq data: a comparative study

(2011) Qiong-Yi Zhao et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Sequencing and characterization of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) transcriptome

(2011) Bonnie A Fraser et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Polyphenism in social insects: insights from a transcriptome-wide analysis of gene expression in the life stages of the key pollinator, Bombus terrestris

(2011) Thomas J Colgan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2011) Brian R Johnson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Polyphenism in Insects

(2011) Stephen J. Simpson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

INBREEDING AND REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT IN THE ANT FORMICA EXSECTA

(2011) Emma Vitikainen et al.   EVOLUTION

Comparative Genomics of the Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Protein Gene Families across the Arthropoda: Origin and Evolutionary History of the Chemosensory System

(2011) Filipe G. Vieira et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2011) Sanne Nygaard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

DNA methylation plays a crucial role during early Nasonia development

(2011) M. V. Zwier et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

DNA methylation in insects: on the brink of the epigenomic era

(2011) K. M. Glastad et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Do Cuticular Hydrocarbons Provide Sufficient Information for Optimal Sex Allocation in the Ant Formica exsecta?

(2011) Jelle S. van Zweden et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Social pleiotropy and the molecular evolution of honey bee vitellogenin

(2011) HELI HAVUKAINEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The evolutionary origin of orphan genes

(2011) Diethard Tautz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Sequence-specific error profile of Illumina sequencers

(2011) Kensuke Nakamura et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Unique soil microbial assemblages associated with grassland ant species with different nesting and foraging strategies

(2011) Bas Boots et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Transcriptome Sequencing and De Novo Analysis for Yesso Scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis) Using 454 GS FLX

(2011) Rui Hou et al.   PLoS One

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

Relaxed selection is a precursor to the evolution of phenotypic plasticity

(2011) B. G. Hunt 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 genomic impact of 100 million years of social evolution in seven ant species

(2011) Jürgen Gadau et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Correlations between spatiotemporal changes in gene expression and apoptosis underlie wing polyphenism in the ant Pheidole morrisi

(2010) Seba Jamal Shbailat et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Optimization of de novo transcriptome assembly from next-generation sequencing data

(2010) Y. Surget-Groba et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Evolutionary variation in gene expression is associated with dimorphism in eusocial vespid wasps

(2010) B. G. Hunt et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Sociality Is Linked to Rates of Protein Evolution in a Highly Social Insect

(2010) B. G. Hunt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of Gene Expression in Fire Ants: The Effects of Developmental Stage, Caste, and Species

(2010) L. Ometto et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Changes in reproductive roles are associated with changes in gene expression in fire ant queens

(2010) YANNICK WURM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) Brenton R. Graveley et al.   NATURE

Rapid transcriptome and proteome profiling of a non-model marine invertebrate, Bugula neritina

(2010) Hao Wang et al.   PROTEOMICS

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

Nature versus nurture in social insect caste differentiation

(2010) Tanja Schwander et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fourmidable: a database for ant genomics

(2009) Yannick Wurm et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Polygyny reduces rather than increases nestmate discrimination cue diversity in Formica exsecta ants

(2009) S. J. Martin et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Comparison of Queen-Specific Gene Expression in Related Lower Termite Species

(2009) T. Weil et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The evolution of genome size in ants

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

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

(2008) Sean B. Carroll   CELL

Fitness and the level of homozygosity in a social insect

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

Molecular characteristics of insect vitellogenins

(2008) Muhammad Tufail et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Rapid transcriptome characterization for a nonmodel organism using 454 pyrosequencing

(2008) J. CRISTOBAL VERA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Chemical basis of nest-mate discrimination in the ant Formica exsecta

(2008) S. J Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES