The honeybee Apis mellifera

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dearden, Peter K ^a   Duncan, Elizabeth J ^a   Wilson, Megan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APICULTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; DRONE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENUS; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; LONGEVITY; MATING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; POLYPHENISM; QUEEN (INSECT); REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WORKER (INSECT);

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 68349114693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo123     Document Type: Article

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