Insights into the molecular basis of social behaviour from studies on the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Denison, Rachel ^a   Raymond Delpech, Valérie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Foraging; Gene expression; Honeybee; Microarrays; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; VITELLOGENIN;

FORAGING; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HONEYBEE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 39049143741     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10158-008-0066-6     Document Type: Review

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