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Epigenetic modifications and their relation to caste and sex determination and ...
Cardoso-Júnior,Carlos A.M.; Fujimura,Patrícia Tieme; Santos-Júnior,Célio Dias; Borges,Naiara Araújo; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos; Hartfelder,KlausAbstract 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 g...
Insights into the Melipona scutellaris (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) fat bo...
Sousa,Cristina Soares de; Serrão,José Eduardo; Bonetti,Ana Maria; Amaral,Isabel Marques Rodrigues; Kerr,Warwick Estevam; Maranhão,Andréa QueirozThe 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 transcriptom...
Characterization of DNA polymorphisms in Caryocar brasiliense (Camb.) in popula...
Londe,Luciana N.; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos; Kerr,Warwick E.; Bonetti,Ana MariaCaryocar 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 det...
Divergência genética entre genótipos de alface por meio de marcadores AFLP
Sousa,Cristina Soares de; Bonetti,Ana Maria; Goulart Filho,Luiz Ricardo; Machado,Jane Rodrigues de Assis; Londe,Luciana Nogueira; Baffi,Milla AlvesConsiderando a restrita diversidade de espécies disponíveis para nutrir a carência de vitaminas no Brasil, Kerr e colaboradores, desde 1981, vêm desenvolvendo pesquisas para melhoramento genético de hortaliças ricas em vitamina A. Dentre elas, obtiveram uma cultivar de alface, denominada Uberlândia 10.000 com 10.200 UI de vitamina A em 100 gramas de folha fresca. Este trabalho objetivou comparar o grau de diver...
Esterase profile in the postembryonic development of Rhipicephalusmicroplus
Baffi,Milla Alves; Pereira,Cícero Donizete; Souza,Guilherme Rocha Lino de; Ceron,Carlos Roberto; Bonetti,Ana MariaThe objective of this work was to analyze the pattern of esterase activity in the development stages of Rhipicephalus microplus by nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using specific staining for esterase. The electrophoretical results revealed the presence of nine regions displaying esterase activity, stained with both alpha-naphthyl acetate and beta-naphthyl acetate, and classified as alpha-beta-e...
Differentially displayed expressed sequence tags in Melipona scutellaris (Hymen...
Santana,Flávia A.; Nunes,Francis M.F.; Vieira,Carlos U.; Machado,Maria Alice M.S.; Kerr,Warwick E.; Silva Jr,Wilson A.; Bonetti,Ana MariaWe have compared gene expression, using the Differential Display Reverse Transcriptase - Polymerase Chain Reaction (DDRT-PCR) technique, by means of mRNA profile in Melipona scutellaris during ontogenetic postembryonic development, in adult worker, and in both Natural and Juvenile Hormone III-induced adult queen. Six, out of the nine ESTs described here, presented differentially expressed in the phases L1 or L2...