Recipe for a busy bee: MicroRNAs in honey bee caste determination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Guo, Xiangqian ^a,c   Su, Songkun ^b,e   Skogerboe, Geir ^a   Dai, Shuanjin ^b   Li, Wenfeng ^b   Li, Zhiguo ^b   Liu, Fang ^b   Ni, Ruifeng ^a,c   Guo, Yu ^a,c   Chen, Shenglu ^b   Zhang, Shaowu ^a,b,d   Chen, Runsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; ROYAL JELLY;

ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE TECHNOLOGY; HONEYBEE; IMAGO; INSECT CASTE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; QUEEN (INSECT); RNA ANALYSIS; WORKER JELLY;

ANIMALS; BEES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; MALE; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84892596070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081661     Document Type: Article

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