Honey bee PTEN - description, developmental knockdown, and tissue-specific expression of splice-variants correlated with alternative social phenotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Mutti, Navdeep S ^a,c   Wang, Ying ^a   Kaftanoglu, Osman ^a   Amdam, Gro V ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; SOMATOMEDIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PTEN GENE; QUEEN (INSECT); RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79960326936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022195     Document Type: Article

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