Here is some more news on coming arthropod genomes.
Nicole Gerardo says that there are ant genomes in progress,
in her collaboration and others:
- fungus-growing ants and their associated microbes.
draft assembly of Atta cephalotes, a leaf cutter ant
some data from harvester ants and argentine ants.
- The fire ant is also being sequenced.
..it seems like multiple ant genome drafts could be available
within a year. Maybe Yannick would find one of these help
with EST/RNA-seq analyses, and vice versa (having many
transcripts to analyze your draft genome is a good idea).
Meg Allen says a group is organizing to sequence Diabrotica (corn
rootworm), see the ESA symposium Tuesday in Indianapolis
Convention Center, room 109-110.
Meg also reminds us that the Entomological Society meeting this
weekend/next week in Indianapolis is a good place to pick up such
information. Ie, see last month's post
http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/arthropod/2009-November/000003.html
or http://www.entsoc.org/am/cm/index.htm
- Don Gilbert
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