Sequence and expression pattern of the germ line marker vasa in honey bees and stingless bees

Queens and workers of social insects differ in the rates of egg laying. Using genomic information we determined the sequence of vasa, a highly conserved gene specific to the germ line of metazoans, for the honey bee and four stingless bees. The vasa sequence of social bees differed from that of othe...

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Published in:	Genetics and Molecular Biology
Main Authors:	Érica Donato Tanaka, Klaus Hartfelder
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2009-01-01
Subjects:	Apis mellifera Melipona quadrifasciata vasa social insect oogenesis
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572009000300023