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Londe,Luciana N.; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos; Kerr,Warwick E.; Bonetti,Ana Maria. |
Caryocar brasiliense (pequi), is one of the main species at the biome of the Brazilian savannah due to its use in culinary, popular medicine, industry in general, and iron and steel industry. At São José do Xingu (MT), a tree of C. brasiliense without thorn at the endocarp was found, which enables the improvement of C. brasiliense not only for consumption but also to the high appreciation it already has. To detect the existing differences between the pequi with and without the thorn at the endocarp, RADP markers were used. The generated polymorphisms were cloned and sequenced in order to identify the sequences that are responsible for the fenotypical alteration. It was observed that the pequi without thorn is genetically isolated from the other populations... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Caryocar brasiliense; Pequi; Thorn; RAPD. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652010000300024 |
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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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Cardoso-Júnior,Carlos A.M.; Fujimura,Patrícia Tieme; Santos-Júnior,Célio Dias; Borges,Naiara Araújo; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos; Hartfelder,Klaus; Goulart,Luiz Ricardo; Bonetti,Ana Maria. |
Abstract Stingless bees of the genus Melipona, have long been considered an enigmatic case among social insects for their mode of caste determination, where in addition to larval food type and quantity, the genotype also has a saying, as proposed over 50 years ago by Warwick E. Kerr. Several attempts have since tried to test his Mendelian two-loci/two-alleles segregation hypothesis, but only recently a single gene crucial for sex determination in bees was evidenced to be sex-specifically spliced and also caste-specifically expressed in a Melipona species. Since alternative splicing is frequently associated with epigenetic marks, and the epigenetic status plays a major role in setting the caste phenotype in the honey bee, we investigated here epigenetic... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: DNA methylation; Histone modification; Caste development; Social bees; Genetic caste determination. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572017000100061 |
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Shibao,Priscila Yumi Tanaka; Cologna,Camila Takeno; Morandi-Filho,Romualdo; Wiezel,Gisele Adriano; Fujimura,Patricia Tiemi; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos; Arantes,Eliane Candiani. |
Abstract Background: Animal poisons and venoms are sources of biomolecules naturally selected. Rhinella schneideri toads are widespread in the whole Brazilian territory and they have poison glands and mucous gland. Recently, protein from toads’ secretion has gaining attention. Frog skin is widely known to present great number of host defense peptides and we hypothesize toads present them as well. In this study, we used a RNA-seq analysis from R. schneideri skin and biochemical tests with the gland secretion to unravel its protein molecules. Methods: Total RNA from the toad skin was extracted using TRizol reagent, sequenced in duplicate using Illumina Hiseq2500 in paired end analysis. The raw reads were trimmed and de novo assembled using Trinity. The... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: RNA-seq; Rhinella schneideri; Toad secretion; Transcriptome; Illumina; Cutaneous secretion; Skin secretion; Toad protein. |
Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992018000100326 |
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