UW-Madison sequencing effort to chart ants and their ecosystem
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 13:42
in Biology & Nature
Nestled within the twisting fungus gardens of leaf-cutter ants exists a complex symbiotic web that has evolved over millions of years. Now, with the help of a major genomic sequencing grant from Roche Applied Science, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be able to analyze these interactions at the molecular scale.
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