Gene co-citation networks associated with worker sterility in honey bees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The evolution of reproductive self-sacrifice is well understood from kin theory, yet our understanding of how actual genes influence the expression of reproductive altruism is only beginning to take shape. As a model in the molecular study of social behaviour, the honey bee Apis mellifera has yielded hundreds of genes associated in their expression with differences in reproductive status of females, including genes directly associated with sterility, yet there has not been an attempt to link these candidates into functional networks that explain how workers regulate sterility in the presence of queen pheromone. In this study we use available microarray data and a co-citation analysis to describe what gene interactions might regulate a worker's response to ovary suppressi

SUBMITTER: Mullen EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4030028 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature