Table 4.

Genome mining approaches applied to ants, copepods and plants.

Organism	Experimental Purpose	Associated Techniques	References
Atta cephalotes, Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator	Defense- and neuropeptides in Social Ants	tBLASTn, GeneWise algorithm, ClustalW	[4]
Calanus sp., Pontella sp., Oikopleura sp., Acartia sp., Acartia sp. and Corycaeus sp.	Metabolic pathway from conversion from β-carotene to astaxanthin.	LC-UV method, HPLC, Hhpred database	[79]
Arabidopsis thaliana, Capsella rubella, Brassica oleracea, Nicotiana benthamiana, Agrobacterium tumefaciens	Sesterterpene biosynthetic gene cluster	plantiSMASH, heteroloug expression, GC-MS, cristallography	[80]