More than royal food - Major royal jelly protein genes in sexuals and workers of the honeybee Apis mellifera

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Buttstedt, Anja ^a   Moritz, Robin F A ^a,b,c   Erler, Silvio ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Facultatea de Zootehnie şi Biotehnologii Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agricole şi Medicinǎ Veterinarǎ ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

Apalbumin; Caste determination; Caste system; MRJP; Queen determination; Royalactin; Social insect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888266505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-72     Document Type: Article

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