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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, Graff J, Keller L

ABSTRACT: 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.

Published 16 January 2007 in Genome Biol, 8(1): R9.
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