Exploring integument transcriptomes, cuticle ultrastructure, and cuticular hydrocarbons profiles in eusocial and solitary bee species displaying heterochronic adult cuticle maturation.
Falcon T, Pinheiro DG, Ferreira-Caliman MJ, Turatti ICC, Abreu FCP, Galaschi-Teixeira JS, Martins JR, Elias-Neto M, Soares MPM, Laure MB, Figueiredo VLC, Lopes NP, Simões ZLP, Garófalo CA, Bitondi MMG.
Falcon T, et al.
PLoS One. 2019 Mar 14;14(3):e0213796. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213796. eCollection 2019.
PLoS One. 2019.
PMID: 30870522
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In general, structural cuticle proteins and chitin-related genes were upregulated in pharate-adults and newly-emerged bees whereas transcripts for odorant binding proteins, cytochrome P450 and antioxidant proteins were overrepresented in foragers. ...In support to our hypo …
In general, structural cuticle proteins and chitin-related genes were upregulated in pharate-adults and newly-emerged bees whereas tr …