Characters that differ between diploid and haploid honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 624-641

  Herrmann, Matthias ^a   Trenzcek, Tina ^b   Fahrenhorst, Hartmut ^a   Engels, Wolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult size; Apis mellifera; Diploid and haploid drones; Larval cuticular hydrocarbons; Sperm DNA content; Vitellogenin; Wing hooks

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; DNA; VITELLOGENIN;

ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIPLOIDY; GAMETOCYTE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HAPLOIDY; HATCHING; HEMOLYMPH; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM;

ANIMALS; BEES; DIPLOIDY; DNA; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAPLOIDY; HEMOLYMPH; LARVA; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOZOA; VITELLOGENINS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 27744569176     PISSN: 16765680     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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