Title |
Transcriptional markers of sub-optimal nutrition in developing Apis mellifera nurse workers
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-134 |
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Authors |
Vanessa Corby-Harris, Beryl M Jones, Alexander Walton, Melissa R Schwan, Kirk E Anderson |
Abstract |
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) contribute substantially to the worldwide economy and ecosystem health as pollinators. Pollen is essential to the bee's diet, providing protein, lipids, and micronutrients. The dramatic shifts in physiology, anatomy, and behavior that accompany normal worker development are highly plastic and recent work demonstrates that development, particularly the transition from nurse to foraging roles, is greatly impacted by diet. However, the role that diet plays in the developmental transition of newly eclosed bees to nurse workers is poorly understood. To further understand honey bee nutrition and the role of diet in nurse development, we used a high-throughput screen of the transcriptome of 3 day and 8 day old worker bees fed either honey and stored pollen (rich diet) or honey alone (poor diet) within the hive. We employed a three factor (age, diet, age x diet) analysis of the transcriptome to determine whether diet affected nurse worker physiology and whether poor diet altered the developmental processes normally associated with aging. |
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