Pair-Rule Gene Orthologues Have Unexpected Maternal Roles in the Honeybee (Apis mellifera)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Wilson, Megan J ^a   Dearden, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AM EVE GENE; AM FUSHI TARATZU GENE; AM HAIRY GENE; AM RUN GENE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT GENETICS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METAZOA;

EID: 84867016581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046490     Document Type: Article

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