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1: Genome Biol. 2007;8(1):R9.Click here to read Click here to read Links

An annotated cDNA library and microarray for large-scale gene-expression studies in the ant Solenopsis invicta.

Wang J, Jemielity S, Uva P, Wurm Y, Gräff J, Keller L.

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. John.Wang@unil.ch

Ants display a range of fascinating behaviors, a remarkable level of intra-species phenotypic plasticity and many other interesting characteristics. Here we present a new tool to study the molecular mechanisms underlying these traits: a tentatively annotated expressed sequence tag (EST) resource for the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. From a normalized cDNA library we obtained 21,715 ESTs, which represent 11,864 putatively different transcripts with very diverse molecular functions. All ESTs were used to construct a cDNA microarray.

PMID: 17224046 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1839134