Developmental regulation of ecdysone receptor (EcR) and EcR-controlled gene expression during pharate-adult development of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Mello, Tathyana Rachel Palo ^a   Aleixo, Aline Carolina ^a   Pinheiro, Daniel Guariz ^b   Nunes, Francis Morais Franco ^c   Bitondi, Márcia Maria Gentile ^a   Hartfelder, Klaus ^a   Barchuk, Angel Roberto ^d   Simões, Zilá Luz Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALFENAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

20e; Adult development; Ecdysteroid; Honey bee; Jh; Juvenile hormone; Mirna; Rnai

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84917736519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00445     Document Type: Article

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