Formica exsecta
narrow-headed ant or excised wood ant
Formica exsecta (the ) is a species of ant found from Western Europe to Asia.A rare formicine ant with a deeply excised head, F. exsecta forms small mounds up to around a foot in height consisting of much finer material than that used by true wood ants of the F. rufa group.An interesting feature of F. exsecta is that it occurs in two distinct social forms: either a monogyne form where the colony has a single egg-laying queen, or a polygyne form where many egg-laying queens are part of the same colony.
Host Genome
Scaffold| Genome ID | Level | BUSCO Assessment |
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| GCA_003651465.1 | Scaffold |
C:98.6%[S:95.2%,D:3.4%],F:0.8%,M:0.6%,n:1367
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Related Symbionts
2 recordsSymbiont records associated with Formica exsecta
| Classification | Function | Function Tags | Reference | |
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Wolbachia wFex
Pseudomonadota |
Bacteria
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show considerable rates of gene transfer from the symbiont to the host |
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Burkholderia
Pseudomonadota |
Bacteria
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produce antibiotics |
Antimicrobials
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Metagenome Information
0 recordsMetagenome sequencing data associated with Formica exsecta
| Run | Platform | Location | Date | BioProject |
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No metagenomes foundNo metagenome records associated with this host species. |
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Amplicon Information
0 recordsAmplicon sequencing data associated with Formica exsecta
| Run | Classification | Platform | Location | Environment |
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No amplicons foundNo amplicon records associated with this host species. |
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Related Articles
2 recordsResearch articles related to Formica exsecta
| Title | Authors | Journal | Year | DOI |
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Dhaygude, K; Nair, A; Johansson, H; Wurm, Y; Sundström, L
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BMC GENOMICS
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2019
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10.1186/s12864-019-5665-6 | |
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González-Teuber, M; Kaltenpoth, M; Boland, W
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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
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2014
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10.1111/nph.12664 |