Transcriptome Characterisation of the Ant Formica exsecta with New Insights into the Evolution of Desaturase Genes in Social Hymenoptera

Hélène Badouin; Khalid Belkhir; Emma Gregson; Juan Galindo; Liselotte Sundström; Stephen J. Martin; Roger K. Butlin; Carole M. Smadja

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068200

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Transcriptome Characterisation of the Ant Formica exsecta with New Insights into the Evolution of Desaturase Genes in Social Hymenoptera

Hélène Badouin ,

* E-mail: helene.badouin@u-psud.fr

Current address: Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris Sud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Orsay, France

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS - Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution UMR 5554, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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Khalid Belkhir,

Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS - Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution UMR 5554, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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Emma Gregson,

Affiliation Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Juan Galindo,

Affiliations Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Departamento de Bioquímica, Xenética e Inmunoloxía, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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Liselotte Sundström,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Stephen J. Martin,

Current address: School of Environment and Life Sciences, Salford University, Manchester, United Kingdom

Affiliation Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Roger K. Butlin,

Affiliation Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Carole M. Smadja

Affiliations Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS - Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution UMR 5554, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Transcriptome Characterisation of the Ant Formica exsecta with New Insights into the Evolution of Desaturase Genes in Social Hymenoptera

Hélène Badouin,
Khalid Belkhir,
Emma Gregson,
Juan Galindo,
Liselotte Sundström,
Stephen J. Martin,
Roger K. Butlin,
Carole M. Smadja

Published: July 12, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068200

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