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RE: A new study suggest that desert ants (Cataglyphis) use the geomagnetic field to navigate to find the nest
A lot of ideas here occurring to me.
First off, I want to homogenize a bunch and see if what sort of heat adaptations they have on proteomic level.
Second, as the authors in that first paper mention, their reflective adaptations have a lot of potential for biomimetic materials.
Third, I really wonder what mechanism they use for sensing the magnetic fields. I went to the NCBI to see if I could compare their genes with other magento-sensing animals, but they haven't really been sequenced yet. Add that to evidence for the utility of an Earth Genome Project.
Yep, definitely grounds for lots of further research here.
Thanks for checking the NCBI for the genetic data by the way. I was actually thinking that it could be possible to check for the Cry4 gene in these ants from that website, so it's unfortunate that they have not been sequenced yet.
What can I say, great minds think alike.
Hehe :) It's too bad that it was not there though. It would have been really cool to check.