Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

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Volumn 443, Issue 7114, 2006, Pages 931-949

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^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g Bee Power   (United States)

^h HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^j MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^k TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l University of Houston   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁿ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^p ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^s RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^t UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^v UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^w HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^x UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^y NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ab MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ac CSIRO   (Australia)

^ad GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^ae WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^af U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^ag KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^ak NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^al CNRS   (France)

^am Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes   (United States)

^an NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ao NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^ap CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^aq UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^ar VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^as UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^at LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^au WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^av SOFTBERRY INC   (United States)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^ax UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ay AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^az INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^ba Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^bb HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bc UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^bd OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^be NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^bf UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^bg CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^bh UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^bi NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bj WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bk UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^bl UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^bm UARC   (United States)

^bn Systemix Institute   (United States)

^bo UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^bp LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^bq Research Institute of Oncology   (Spain)

^br UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ECOLOGY; ENZYMES; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA;

DNA METHYLATION; GENOME SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

ADENOSINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; RNA; THYMIDINE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HONEYBEE; POLLINATION; POPULATION GENETICS; RNA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; HYBRIDIZATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT GENETICS; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLINATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; TASTE BUD; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750460281     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05260     Document Type: Article

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