Molecular determinants of caste differentiation in the highly eusocial honeybee Apis mellifera

BACKGROUND: In honeybees, differential feeding of female larvae promotes the occurrence of two different phenotypes, a queen and a worker, from identical genotypes, through incremental alterations, which affect general growth, and character state alterations that result in the presence or absence of...

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Main Authors: Barchuk, Angel R, Cristino, Alexandre S, Kucharski, Robert, Costa, Luciano F, Simões, Zilá LP, Maleszka, Ryszard
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1929063/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17577409
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-7-70
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