Exploring integument transcriptomes, cuticle ultrastructure, and cuticular hydrocarbons profiles in eusocial and solitary bee species displaying heterochronic adult cuticle maturation
Tiago Falcón, Daniel Guariz Pinheiro, Maria Juliana Ferreira‐Caliman, Izabel Cristina Casanova Turatti, Fabiano Carlos Pinto de Abreu, Juliana Stephanie Galaschi Teixeira, Juliana Ramos Martins, Moysés Elias-Neto, Michelle Prioli Miranda Soares, Michelle P. M. Soares, Marcela B. Laure, Vera L. C. Figueiredo, Norberto Peporine Lopes, Zilá L. P. Simões, Carlos Alberto Garófalo, Márcia Maria Gentile Bitondi
The paper compares integument transcriptomes, cuticle ultrastructure, and cuticular hydrocarbon profiles between eusocial and solitary bees to investigate cuticle maturation heterochrony.
PLoS ONE · Mar 14, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics