show Abstracthide AbstractRNA from Camponotus embryos, instar 1 larvae, instar 4 larvae, early pupae, late pupae (minor and major), adult workers, and males was sequenced to look for gene expression changes throughout development. Overall design: RNA was extracted from the whole body of the ants and sequenced. The RNA-seq was performed for a study that reports PacBio-based reassembly for our two ant genomes. However, those versions of the assemblies are not in a database yet. The records will be updated with the proper links to the assembly records once available.