Social reversal of immunosenescence in honey bee workers

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 939-947

  Amdam, Gro V ^a,b   Aase, Anne Lene T O ^b   Seehuus, Siri Christine ^b   Kim Fondrk, M ^a   Norberg, Kari ^b   Hartfelder, Klaus ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Behavioral reversion; Honey bee worker; Immunosenescence; Juvenile hormone; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; LIPOPROTEIN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENESCENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEMOCYTES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HYPOPHARYNX; IMMUNE SYSTEM; JUVENILE HORMONES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 27944472606     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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