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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Harpegnathos saltator
SUBMITTER: zhiyong huang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-22680 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100801 5995
The organized societies of ants include short-lived worker castes displaying specialized behavior and morphology and long-lived queens dedicated to reproduction. We sequenced and compared the genomes of two socially divergent ant species: Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator. Both genomes contained high amounts of CpG, despite the presence of DNA methylation, which in non-Hymenoptera correlates with CpG depletion. Comparison of gene expression in different castes identified up-regulat ...[more]