Four quantitative trait loci that influence worker sterility in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1337-1343

  Oxley, Peter R ^a   Thompson, Graham J ^a,b   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; ANIMAL; BEE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INFERTILITY; LOD SCORE; MALE; OVARY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 52049106077     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.087270     Document Type: Article

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