Recipe for a busy bee: microRNAs in Honey Bee caste determination.

Social caste determination in the honey bee is assumed to be determined by the dietary status of the young larvae and translated into physiological and epigenetic changes through nutrient-sensing pathways. We have employed Illumina/Solexa sequencing to examine the small RNA content in the bee larval...

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Main Authors: Xiangqian Guo, Songkun Su, Geir Skogerboe, Shuanjin Dai, Wenfeng Li, Zhiguo Li, Fang Liu, Ruifeng Ni, Yu Guo, Shenglu Chen, Shaowu Zhang, Runsheng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3862878?pdf=render