Caste determination in the honeybee has been demonstrated to be decided by the royalactin in the royal jelly. And the differentially expressed coding genes in caste determination of the worker and queen larvae have also been well studied. Our experiments identified that lnc RNAs are also differentially expressed in the caste determination of the larvae, which indicates that lnc RNAs are involved in the caste determination. Detailed analysis showed that in the early development of the larvae, lncRNAs play a ...
4)Research School of Biology,College of Medicine,Biology and Environment,The Australian National University,Australia;5)中国科学院大学,北京100049)*中国科学院战略性先导科技专项(XDA01020402)和国家高技术研究发展计划(863)(2012AA020402,2012AA02A202)资助项目.**