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Conservation and modification of genetic and physiological toolkits underpinning diapause in bumble bee queens.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2015
Amsalem Etya, Galbraith David A, Cnaani Jonathan, Teal Peter E A, Grozinger Christina M
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Diapause is the key adaptation allowing insects to survive unfavourable conditions and inhabit an array of environments. Physiological changes during diapause are largely conserved across species and are hypothesized to be regulated by a conserved suite of genes (a 'toolkit'). Furthermore, it is hypothesized that in social insects, this toolkit was co-opted to mediate caste differentiation between long-lived,...
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