Pleiotropy constrains the evolution of protein but not regulatory sequences in a transcription regulatory network influencing complex social behaviours

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Molodtsova, Daria ^a   Harpur, Brock A ^a   Kent, Clement F ^a,b   Seevananthan, Kajendra ^a   Zayed, Amro ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Evo devo; Natural selection; Network hubs; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 84917729295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00431     Document Type: Article

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