The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta was recently sequenced by the team of Prof. Laurent Keller at the Lausanne University, and by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The Swiss teams applied sophisticated research methods previously restricted to biomedical research to sequence and assemble the whole genome of this particularly destructive species. The results of the study led by Dr Yannick Wurm, The Genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta, are published this week in the prestigious journal PNAS.
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