Molecular determinants of caste differentiation in the highly eusocial honeybee Apis mellifera
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- 18 June 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Developmental Biology
- Vol. 7 (1) , 70
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-213x-7-70
Abstract
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 specific structures. Although previous studies revealed a link between incremental alterations and differential expression of physiometabolic genes, the molecular changes accompanying character state alterations remain unknown.Keywords
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