Coordinated responses to developmental hormones in the Kenyon cells of the adult worker honey bee brain (Apis mellifera L.)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-69

  Velarde, Rodrigo A ^a   Robinson, Gene E ^b   Fahrbach, Susan E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Ecdysteroids; EcR; Juvenile hormone; Mushroom bodies; Quantitative RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CF1 PROTEIN, INSECT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; E75 PROTEIN, INSECT; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ECDYSTERONE; INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE III; SESQUITERPENE; STEROID RECEPTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BRAIN; HONEYBEE; HORMONE; JUVENILE; MUSHROOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEROID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUSHROOM BODY;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MUSHROOM BODIES; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SESQUITERPENES; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

APIS MELLIFERA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57749111729     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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