Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insect with over 130,000 described species. It includes the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Many of them are economically or ecologically important. Here is an example showing how to search for CDS markers in Hymenoptera. The following options were selected on the searching page. "CDS markers" was checked. The minimum length of CDS was set as 500 (the default was 700). Drosophila melanogaster was chosen as the query, because its genome is well studied. Three Hymenoptera were selected as the subject genomes. Then hit the submit button to start the search. The search may take a few seconds to hours depending on the number of markers found. So please wait patiently and don't click back/forward button.
Demo 2. Searching for EPIC in bird and Anolis lizards.
The Anolis lizards are one of the best examples to study adaptive radiation and convergent evolution. Nuclear
EPIC markers should facilitate such studies. Here is an example of searching for conserved EPIC markers in
Anolis lizards. On the searching page, "EPIC markers" was checked. The maximum intron length was
left as the default, 1000 bp, which means the intron size must be less than 1 kb in at least one of the species.
The identity in flanking exon was set as the default, 85. The number of file to be saved was set as 100, which can
be changed if more markers were needed. Gallus gallus was selected as the query, since it has better
annotation. Anolis carolinensis and Taeniopygia guttata were used as the subject genomes.
For questions, please contact Chenhong Li
(lichenhong.unl@gmail.com).
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