Western Honeybee Drones and Workers (Apis mellifera ligustica)Have Different Olfactory Mechanisms than Eastern Honeybees (Apis cerana cerana)

摘要: The honeybees Apis mellifera ligustica (Aml) and cerana (Acc) are two different western eastern bee species that evolved in distinct ecologies developed specific antennal olfactory systems for their survival. Knowledge of how function regards to the success each respective is scarce. We compared morphology proteome between sexually mature drones foraging workers both using a scanning electron microscope, two-dimensional electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Despite general similarities drone worker bees species, total 106 100 proteins altered expression drones' workers' antennae, respectively. This suggests differences supported by change proteome. Of th...