The transcriptomic and evolutionary signature of social interactions regulating honey bee caste development

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 4795-4807

  Vojvodic, Svjetlana ^a,b   Johnson, Brian R ^c   Harpur, Brock A ^d   Kent, Clement F ^d,g   Zayed, Amro ^d   Anderson, Kirk E ^a,e   Linksvayer, Timothy A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended phenotype; Indirect genetic effects; Interacting phenotypes; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946476435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1720     Document Type: Article

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