TY - JOUR AU - Barchuk, Angel R. AU - Cristino, Alexandre S. AU - Kucharski, Robert AU - Costa, Luciano F. AU - Simões, Zilá LP AU - Maleszka, Ryszard PY - 2007 DA - 2007/06/18 TI - Molecular determinants of caste differentiation in the highly eusocial honeybee Apis mellifera JO - BMC Developmental Biology SP - 70 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - In honeybees, differential feeding of female larvae promotes the occurrence of two different phenotypes, a queen and a worker, from identical genotypes, through incremental alterations, which affect general growth, and character state alterations that result in the presence or absence of specific structures. Although previous studies revealed a link between incremental alterations and differential expression of physiometabolic genes, the molecular changes accompanying character state alterations remain unknown. SN - 1471-213X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-7-70 DO - 10.1186/1471-213X-7-70 ID - Barchuk2007 ER -