Chronic parasitization by Nosema microsporidia causes global expression changes in core nutritional, metabolic and behavioral pathways in honey bee workers (Apis mellifera)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Holt, Holly L ^a,c   Aronstein, Katherine A ^b   Grozinger, Christina M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral maturation; Chronic parasite; Genomics; Honey bee; Innate immunity; Insulin signaling pathway; Nosema; Nutrition; Stress

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MATURATION; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSPORIDIA; MIDGUT; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA APIS; NOSEMA CERANAE; NOSEMOSIS; NUTRITION; PARASITISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; DNA MICROARRAY; FAT BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

APIS MELLIFERA; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA APIS; NOSEMA CERANAE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FAT BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NOSEMA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84887736957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-799     Document Type: Article

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