What was the correct sequence/species match?
1 – D; Wasmannia auropunctata
2 – C; Pseudomyrmex gracilis
3 – A; Formica moki
4 – B; Proceratium avium
Points are split 5 each between Sean McCann, who was first to correctly guess two of the answers, and Tonya Severson, who got them all correct. Nice work. This was one of the more difficult challenges.
What are the tools to find out which species owns those sequences and how do we use them?
I was wondering exactly the same thing! Google doesn’t work so well for DNA searches.
One way is to do a BLAST search.
Yep, I just tried it. Go to http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi, paste the sequence, and hit the Blast button. I did not know it was that easy.
Oh, I actually linked to it – you can click the “BLAST”, it just isn’t a different color! But yes, quite easy.