At the brink of eusociality: Transcriptomic correlates of worker behaviour in a small carpenter bee

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rehan, Sandra M ^a   Berens, Ali J ^b   Toth, Amy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apidae; Ceratina; Maternal heterochrony; Sibling care; Social evolution; Subsocial

Indexed keywords

ALLOPARENTAL CARE; DIACHRONISM; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HONEYBEE; MATERNAL CARE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CERATINA CALCARATA; HEXAPODA; XYLOCOPINAE;

ANIMAL; BEE; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84923932433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0260-6     Document Type: Article

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