Honey bee aggression supports a link between gene regulation and behavioral evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 15400-15405

  Alaux, Cédric ^a,h   Sinha, Saurabh ^b   Hasadsri, Linda ^c   Hunt, Greg J ^d   Guzmán Novoa, Ernesto ^e   DeGrandi Hoffman, Gloria ^f   Uribe Rubio, José Luis ^g   Southey, Bruce R ^a,b   Rodriguez Zas, Sandra ^a   Robinson, Gene E ^a  

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

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

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

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^h Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; HONEYBEE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEXICO; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 70349313621     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907043106     Document Type: Article

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