2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Molecular mechanisms of caste differentiation and division of labor in social aphids
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21770260
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Evolutionary biology
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
KUTSUKAKE Mayako National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 生物プロセス研究部門, 研究員 (90415703)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 社会性昆虫 / 兵隊アブラムシ / 階級分化 / 社会行動 / 分業 / 兵隊特異的遺伝子 |
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| Research Abstract |
To understand the molecular bases of caste differentiation, social behavior, division of labors in social aphids, many genes and proteins that expressed specifically or dominantly in soldiers were obtained from a cDNA subtraction experiment and 2D-PAGE analysis between soldiers and non-soldiers. Also, biological function of a novel protein that is involved in a social behavior, gall repair, was analyzed in this study.
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