TY - JOUR AU - Liu, Hao AU - Wang, Zi-Long AU - Tian, Liu-Qing AU - Qin, Qiu-Hong AU - Wu, Xiao-Bo AU - Yan, Wei-Yu AU - Zeng, Zhi-Jiang PY - 2014 DA - 2014/08/30 TI - Transcriptome differences in the hypopharyngeal gland between Western Honeybees (Apis mellifera) and Eastern Honeybees (Apis cerana) JO - BMC Genomics SP - 744 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Apis mellifera and Apis cerana are two sibling species of Apidae. Apis cerana is adept at collecting sporadic nectar in mountain and forest region and exhibits stiffer hardiness and acarid resistance as a result of natural selection, whereas Apis mellifera has the advantage of producing royal jelly. To identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) that affect the development of hypopharyngeal gland (HG) and/or the secretion of royal jelly between these two honeybee species, we performed a digital gene expression (DGE) analysis of the HGs of these two species at three developmental stages (newly emerged worker, nurse and forager). SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-744 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-15-744 ID - Liu2014 ER -