The transcription factor ultraspiracle influences honey bee social behavior and behavior-related gene expression

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ament, Seth A ^a   Wang, Ying ^b   Chen, Chieh Chun ^c   Blatti, Charles A ^c   Hong, Feng ^a   Liang, Zhengzheng S ^a   Negre, Nicolas ^d   White, Kevin P ^d   Rodriguez Zas, Sandra L ^a   Mizzen, Craig A ^a,b   Sinha, Saurabh ^a,c   Zhong, Sheng ^a,c   Robinson, Gene E ^a,b  

^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 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ULTRASPIRACLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; ULTRASPIRACLE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR RELATED GENE EXPRESSION; BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT BODY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HONEYBEE; HORMONE RESPONSE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BEE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; JUVENILE HORMONES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859234586     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002596     Document Type: Article

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