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More than royal food - Major royal jelly protein genes in sexuals and workers of the honeybee Apis mellifera

BACKGROUND: In the honeybee Apis mellifera, female larvae destined to become a queen are fed with royal jelly, a secretion of the hypopharyngeal glands of young nurse bees that rear the brood. The protein moiety of royal jelly comprises mostly major royal jelly proteins (MRJPs) of which the coding g...

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Autores principales: Buttstedt, Anja, Moritz, Robin FA, Erler, Silvio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24279675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-72