Reproductive workers show queenlike gene expression in an intermediately eusocial insect, the buff-tailed bumble bee Bombus terrestris

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3043-3063

  Harrison, Mark C ^a   Hammond, Robert L ^a   Mallon, Eamonn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

castes; differential expression; eusociality; Hymenoptera; polyphenism

Indexed keywords

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

ANIMAL; BEE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPA; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, INSECT; LARVA; MALE; PUPA; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84932199622     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13215     Document Type: Article

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