Taxonomically restricted genes are associated with the evolution of sociality in the honey bee

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Johnson, Brian R ^a   Tsutsui, Neil D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; QUEEN (INSECT); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMICALLY RESTRICTED GENE; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; BEE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOME;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79953071614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-164     Document Type: Article

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