Gadau, J. & Helmkampf, M.

Ant(gen)omics – what we have and what we need!

Jürgen Gadau (contact author) & Martin Helmkampf, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, and Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, Tempe, Az, 85282, USA. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Myrmecol. News 16: 67-68 (online 30 September 2011) Issn 1994-4136 (print), Issn 1997-3500 (online) Received 22 July 2011; revision received 7 September 2011; accepted 7 September 2011 Subject Editor: Corrie S. Moreau The advent of next generation sequencing techniques has provided the ant community with the unique opportunity to open the black box of "the" ant socio-genome but at the same time swamped the community with an amount of data that is unprecedented in the history of social insect research (Bonasio & al. 2010, Nygaard & al. 2011, Smith & al. 2011a, b, Suen & al. 2011, Wurm & al. 2011). How will we analyze the onslaught of data and go beyond correlative research? How many more ant genomes do we need…

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