A few months ago we learned via an unintentionally leaked press release that a team of researchers lead by Nicole Gerardo and Cameron Currie had won a Roche Applied Sciences grant competition. The team will be sequencing the complete genome of 14 players from the ant/fungus/microbe co-evolutionary system, including three attine ants from different genera.
The announcement is now official.
An Acromyrmex queen, with brood, in the fungus garden
3 comments on Attine genomes: for real this time
hey i am doing a report on the leaf-cutter ants for my middle school project. It was not my choice to this insect but the teacher picked it out for me. I am very happy that my teacher picked this insect out for me because i learned that there colonies are just like us. the majors i thought were like our army. Thanks so much Mrs. Wieski. i am haven a lot of fun in your environmental science class.
Daria Ruediger
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