Polyphenism in social insects: insights from a transcriptome-wide analysis of gene expression in the life stages of the key pollinator, <it>Bombus terrestris</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Understanding polyphenism, the ability of a single genome to express multiple morphologically and behaviourally distinct phenotypes, is an important goal for evolutionary and developmental biology. Polyphenism has been key to the evo...
Main Authors: | Colgan Thomas J, Carolan James C, Bridgett Stephen J, Sumner Seirian, Blaxter Mark L, Brown Mark JF |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-12-01
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Series: | BMC Genomics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/623 |
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