Caste development and reproduction: a genome-wide analysis of hallmarks of insect eusociality

• Published in: Insect molecular biology Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 703 - 714
• Main Authors: Cristino, A.S, Nunes, F.M.F, Lobo, C.H, Bitondi, M.M.G, Simões, Z.L.P, Fontoura Costa, L. da, Lattorff, H.M.G, Moritz, R.F.A, Evans, J.D, Hartfelder, K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2006; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: AlignACE; Animals; Apis mellifera; Bees - genetics; caste determination; caste development; caste genes; differential gene expression; expressed sequence tags; gene annotation; gene expression; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; gene ontology; genome; Genome, Insect; honey bees; insect castes; insect reproduction; insect sociobiology; meiosis; oogenesis; Oogenesis - genetics; Reproduction - genetics; reproductive division of labor; sequence analysis; Social Behavior; Special Issue: The Honey Bee Genome; UCR motifs

The honey bee queen and worker castes are a model system for developmental plasticity. We used established expressed sequence tag information for a Gene Ontology based annotation of genes that are differentially expressed during caste development. Metabolic regulation emerged as a major theme, with...