Royalactin induces queen differentiation in honeybees

Nature

Volumn 473, Issue 7348, 2011, Pages 478-483

  Kamakura, Masaki ^a  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HORMONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; ROYAL JELLY; ROYALACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BODY SIZE; DIMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HONEYBEE; HORMONE; QUEEN; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAT BODY; FEMALE; HONEYBEE; HORMONE METABOLISM; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CASEINS; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FAT BODY; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GLYCOPROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES, 70-KDA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

APIS MELLIFERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 79957613433     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10093     Document Type: Article

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