Barrier Immune Effectors Are Maintained during Transition from Nurse to Forager in the Honey Bee

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jefferson, Jamal M ^a   Dolstad, Hilary A ^a   Sivalingam, Meera D ^a   Snow, Jonathan W ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGER; HONEYBEE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSECT SOCIETY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; NURSE; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BEES; CRITHIDIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENES, INSECT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872180461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054097     Document Type: Article

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