The wild rice accessions from diverse species used for generating the chloroplast sequence information are in Additional file 1: Table S1A.
The diverse species used in animal agriculture require different tools, resources and technologies for their improvement.
This includes the very diverse species used for agricultural production, covering cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and multiple species of fish, shrimp and oysters.
Thus, the basic tenet of our hypothesis is supported: workers in diverse species use a permissive per-encounter recognition strategy that does not cause rejection of nestmates, but does lead to a high rate of per-encounter errors of acceptance.
Arthropods' methods of reproduction and development are diverse; all terrestrial species use internal fertilization, but this is often by indirect transfer of the sperm via an appendage or the ground, rather than by direct injection.
The wild rice species used in this study represent a diverse evolutionary background, including both diploid and tetraploid species encompassing 8 10 million years of divergence [ 12].
These evolutionary parameters were estimated using 46 diverse species (vertebrates and lamprey), only mammal (36 species), and only primates (10 species) following Kumar et al. [ 27].
For example, GEO [ 1] and ArrayExpress [ 2] are public repositories of well-annotated and curated transcript profiling data from diverse species and varied phenomena obtained using different platforms and technologies.
Yet, microarrays based on EST collections are increasingly being used for diverse species, from honey bees to fish [ 13- 20] and including simple diploblastic organisms [ 21].
Newmaster et al. [20] analyzed over 10,000 rbcL sequences from GenBank and found that rbcL could discriminate samples in approximately 85% of pairwise comparisons of congeneric species, whereas the discrimination efficiency was about 88% when a combination of psbA-trnH and rbcL was used across 96 diverse species of 48 genera from 43 families [21].
