What is it about?
The receptors identified in the new release of the imported fire ant genome are classified by ligand or putative function. Many receptors that were misidentified were renammed and yet others that appeared as hypothetical protein were identified as GPCRs.
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Why is it important?
Endocrine communication among tissues is paramount to insect physiology and normal insect function.
Perspectives
This article was a tour-de-force because as we were annotating the previous genome release the new release happened in August-September 2018 and every annotation had to be revisited and re-done.
Professor and Texas AgriLife Research Fellow Patricia V. Pietrantonio
Texas A&M University System
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This page is a summary of: GPCR annotation, G proteins, and transcriptomics of fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) queen and worker brain: An improved view of signaling in an invasive superorganism, General and Comparative Endocrinology, December 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.12.008.
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