Nutritionally driven differential gene expression leads to heterochronic brain development in honeybee castes.

The differential feeding regimes experienced by the queen and worker larvae of the honeybee Apis mellifera shape a complex endocrine response cascade that ultimately gives rise to differences in brain morphologies. Brain development analyzed at the morphological level from the third (L3) through fif...

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Main Authors: Lívia Maria Moda, Joseana Vieira, Anna Cláudia Guimarães Freire, Vanessa Bonatti, Ana Durvalina Bomtorin, Angel Roberto Barchuk, Zilá Luz Paulino Simões
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23738002/?tool=EBI