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| Sousa,Cristina Soares de; Serrão,José Eduardo; Bonetti,Ana Maria; Amaral,Isabel Marques Rodrigues; Kerr,Warwick Estevam; Maranhão,Andréa Queiroz; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos. |
| The insect fat body is a multifunctional organ analogous to the vertebrate liver. The fat body is involved in the metabolism of juvenile hormone, regulation of environmental stress, production of immunity regulator-like proteins in cells and protein storage. However, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in fat body physiology in stingless bees. In this study, we analyzed the transcriptome of the fat body from the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris. In silico analysis of a set of cDNA library sequences yielded 1728 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and 997 high-quality sequences that were assembled into 29 contigs and 117 singlets. The BLAST X tool showed that 86% of the ESTs shared similarity with Apis mellifera (honeybee) genes. The... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Fat body; Gene expression; Melipona; Stingless bees; Transcriptome. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572013000200022 |
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