A honey bee hexamerin, HEX 70a, is likely to play an intranuclear role in developing and mature ovarioles and testioles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Martins, Juliana R ^a   Anhezini, Lucas ^a   Dallacqua, Rodrigo P ^a   Simões, Zilá L P ^a   Bitondi, Márcia M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYNYL DEOXYURIDINE; HEXAMERIN 70A; HEXAMERIN 70A INHIBITOR; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; THYMIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; SCLEROTIN; STORAGE PROTEINS, INSECTA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRONE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HONEYBEE; IMAGO; INSECT CELL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NURSE CELL; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARIOLE; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); QUEEN (INSECT); SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIOLE; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; BEE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BEES; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; OVARY; OVIPOSITION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEINS; TESTIS;

EID: 83655181886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029006     Document Type: Article

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