Genes involved in thoracic exoskeleton formation during the pupal-to-adult molt in a social insect model, Apis mellifera

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Soares, Michelle Prioli M ^a   Barchuk, Angel R ^b   Simões, Ana Carolina Q ^c   dos Santos Cristino, Alexandre ^d   de Paula Freitas, Flávia Cristina ^a   Canhos, Luísa L ^a   Bitondi, Márcia Maria G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALFENAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Cuticular protein genes; Honeybee; Metamorphosis; Microarrays; Molt; Thoracic musculature

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANALOGOUS TO PERITROPHINS GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APIDERMIN GENE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPF GENE; CPLCP1 GENE; CPR GENE; CUTICLE; CUTICULAR PROTEIN GENE; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIDERMIS; EXOSKELETON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGO; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT GENOME; MOLTING; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THORAX; TWEEDLE GENE; UPREGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SHELL; BEE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOLYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PUPA; THORAX; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84883108195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-576     Document Type: Article

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