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Meeting report Shelling out for genomics Timothy S McClintock* and Charles D Derby? Addresses: *Department of Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience of Sensory Systems Training Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA. ?Department of Biology, Brains and Behavior Program, and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. Correspondence: Timothy S McClintock. Email: mcclint@ Published: 20 April 2006 Genome Biology 2006, 7:312 (doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-4-312) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2006/7/4/312 ? 2006 BioMed Central Ltd D. pulex genome is only around 200 Mb. Ecologically, A report on the symposium ‘Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Crustacean Biology’ held as part of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2006 Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA, 4-8 January 2006. D. pulex populations show intriguing physiological and anatomical responses to changes in their physical environ- ments such as shifts in pH or introduction of toxic metals, and to changes in predator abundance or type. The assembly and initial annotation of the D. pulex genome is expected to be completed by early 2007. Consistent with its goal of integrating diverse fields studying basic and applied problems in biology, the Society for Integra- tive and Comparative Biology showcased a symposium on the genomics and proteomics of crustaceans at its recent annual meeting. This symposium emphasized the future prospects for crustacean genomics by highlighting two themes - an explo- sion of sequencing efforts and the implementation of physio- logical genomics approaches in crustaceans. The impact of this genome will be felt far and wide as a lode- stone for the comparative genomics of crustaceans and as an important outgroup for genomics studies of other arthro- pods. It will also invigorate ongoing c