Transcriptome comparison between honey bee queen- and worker-destined larvae

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 665-673

  Chen, Xuan ^a   Hu, Yang ^b   Zheng, Huoqing ^a   Cao, Lianfei ^a   Niu, Defang ^a   Yu, Dongliang ^c   Sun, Yongqiao ^b   Hu, Songnian ^b   Hu, Fuliang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; DEGs; Honey bee; RNA Seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRON; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRONS; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864794829     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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