The Pogonomyrmex Genome Consortium is an organization of scientists dedicated to studying how complex societies function at the level of the gene to superorganism.

The genome of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, has been sequenced using 454 massively parallel sequencing.  Sequencing was supported by the National Science Foundation (IOS-0920732; PI Juergen Gadau, Arizona State University, co-PI Chris R. Smith, Earlham College).

Links to search the genome, including annotations, will be posted upon public release of the genome, expected in Summer 2010.

Photo (C) Alex Wild