antgenomics

The Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA) aims to assess and study the genomic diversity across the entire phylogeny of ants.

[Joel Vizueta @VizuetaJoel]

Amazing #IUSSI2022 meeting so far. Today I am giving a talk about the global ant genomics alliance (GAGA) at 15:15 in the Themed symposium 6, come to hear about the latest progress and prospects of our project!

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Here is Carebara sp.2 (GAGA-0331)

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Here's how our current taxon sampling looks like mapped onto the ant phylogeny! 27 tribes covered!

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GAGA-0515 is also the smallest of all our so far assembled genomes with only 191,431,382 bp!

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We have published a detailed summary of our first (almost) 100 genomes. Have a look at https://t.co/GltcHsBQPi!

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Here's GAGA-0515 to celebrate!

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This one's GAGA-0384, Pheidole zoceana. The 22,624,689,893 bp of PacBio data we generated for this species produced a genome of ~292 Mb.

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Just look at these amazing ants! Mystrium camillae is GAGA-0404. Thanks to Qionghua Gao again for this great picture.

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Next one is Ochetellus glaber (GAGA-0302), a common Australian species. Photo by Qionghua Gao.

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GAGA-0380: Leptogenys kitteli. Some species in this genus assemble in chains to drag large prey back to the colony (see @stefdegreef's video at https://t.co/VCqgbvkv1s).

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Over the next couple of weeks, we will be tweeting pictures of some of the ants we have sequenced so far. Enjoy! Photo credits to Qionghua Gao!
Here's the first one: Stigmatomma rubiginoum (aka GAGA-0305)

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We are now at 87 species sequenced!
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Latest addition: Cerapachys sulcinodis

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Hao Ran just collected a Leptanilla colony for GAGA in China!🐜

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Here's a picture from the ongoing #GAGA sampling in the Philippines: Pleometrotic Oecophylla queens! Thanks to the Eddie Mondejar and the Biodiversity Research Group at the Mindanao State University. 🐜

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We now have 36 genomes sequenced. The latest one is Rossomyrmex quandratinodum! 🐜

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153 🐜 species are registered in our #GAGA db! https://t.co/4G7upYxGCK

Here's how many samples we have per subfam:
Amblyoponinae 5
Dolichoderinae 14
Dorylinae 7
Ectatomminae 2
Formicinae 81
Myrmicinae 129
Paraponerinae 2
Ponerinae 96
Pseudomyrmecinae 4

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Our sample collection keeps growing! Here's how many colonies per subfamily we have sampled so far:
Amblyoponinae 4
Dolichoderinae 11
Dorylinae 6
Ectatomminae 1
Formicinae 75
Myrmicinae 112
Paraponerinae 2
Ponerinae 73
Pseudomyrmecinae 4

[Kate Parr @FunkyAnt]

Ant course in Ghana, January 2019! Priority given to African students. #AfricanAnts

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[Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute]

The Earth BioGenome Project launches today – a historic mission to read the genetic code of 1.5 million known species of animals, plants, fungi & protozoa on Earth https://t.co/9OQVpVQtpi
#EarthBioGenome #SequencingLife @genomecenter @latrobe @smithsonian @EarlhamInst @Sydney_Uni

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We updated our website. Here's what samples we have so far: https://t.co/4G7upYxGCK
Thinking of it, we still need to add all those ants @stefdegreef collected! 🐜🌎