Organization and potential function of the mrjp3 locus in four honeybee species

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8075-8081

  Albertová, Viera ^a   Su, Songkun ^b   Brockmann, Axel ^c   Gadau, Jürgen ^c   Albert, Štefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer program; Evolution; Genomic sequence; Honeybee; MRJP; Nitrogen storage; Nutrition; Protein; Royal jelly

Indexed keywords

APIS CERANA; APIS DORSATA; APIS FLOREA; APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 27144493232     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf051417x     Document Type: Article

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