Beenome soon: Honey bees as a model 'non-model' system for comparative genomics

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-352

  Evans, Jay D ^a   Weaver, Daniel B ^b  

^a USDA ARS Bee Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b Bee Power LP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; LIFE CYCLE; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0038726251     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.288     Document Type: Note

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