Task-specific expression of the foraging gene in harvester ants

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 813-818

  Ingram, Krista K ^a   Oefner, Peter ^b   Gordon, Deborah M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony organization; Foraging; Gene expression; qPCR; Social insect; Task behaviour

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ARIZONA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 14844333272     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02450.x     Document Type: Article

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