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Table 1 Identity of genes differentially expressed between naive and experienced honeybees and in caffeine-treated honeybees

From: Evaluation of differential gene expression during behavioral development in the honeybee using microarrays and northern blots

  

Array data

  

bEST number

Gene

Head (foragers vs naive)

Abdomen (foragers vs naive)

Head (caffeine treated vs control)

Predicted function

Similarity to closest relative (%)

5

Hsc70

-1.6

+1.3

+12.6

Chaperone, heat shock response, neurotransmitter release

95%

22

α-Gluc-1

+2.5

-1.1

+2.2

α-Glucosidase

100%

28

Unknown

-3.2

+2.3

-1.5

Unknown

N/A

30

Hsp20

+1.3

+2.1

-1.1

Chaperone

65%

31

Hsp83

-1.6

+2.4

+1.2

Chaperone, heat shock response, protein folding

92%

36

SPARC

-8.2

-3.5

+1.8

Cell adhesion, calcium binding

61%

54

GPDH 2

-3.1

+1.3

-1.1

Mitochondrial glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase

69%

56

Cox10

-4.0

-1.1

-1.2

Protoheme IX farnesyltransferase, cox assembly

76%

57

Stck

-2.6

-1.5

+3.9

LIM-domain protein, transcriptional regulation

88%

61

Unknown

-5.2

-1.3

+1.4

PDZ-domain protein, signal transduction

50%

82

Aminopeptidase-1

+1.6

+1.0

-1.2

Membrane alanyl aminopeptidase

51%

92

Trf

+1.2

+3.0

+2.8

Iron transport, iron homeostasis, defense response

63%

97

CG16857

-3.3

+2.1

+1.5

Ig-domain protein, cell adhesion

63%

99

RpS19

-4.7

-1.7

-1.6

Structural protein of ribosome, protein biosynthesis

83%

102

MRJP2

+12.1

+1.7

-1.3

Royal-jelly protein

100%

105

Gld

+3.0

-1.0

+2.0

Glucose dehydrogenase

100%

108

PPIase

-4.0

-1.1

-1.5

Peptidylprolyl isomerase

92%

109

ATP synthase β

-5.9

-1.4

+1.6

Hydrogen-transporting two-sector ATPase

95%

112

Unknown

+5.5

-1.1

-1.3

Unknown

N/A

121

IDGF

-1.4

+1.9

+2.4

Imaginal disc growth factor, not chitinase

54%

122

α-Glucosidase-2

-2.3

+9.8

+1.2

α-Glucosidase

60%

123

Unknown

-3.3

-1.1

-1.7

Unknown

N/A

124

Peritrophin

-5.6

-4.3

+1.4

Structural protein of peritrophic membrane, chitin binding

78%

125

Hymenoptaecin

+1.5

+8.0

+1.7

Antibacterial protein, defense response

100%

127

CG6112

-7.1

-3.8

-1.3

Ligand-gated ion channel subunit

98%

128

Aminopeptidase-2

-1.4

-1.2

+1.5

Membrane alanyl aminopeptidase

49%

129

Unknown

-1.9

+1.2

+5.6

Unknown

N/A

130

Unknown

-7.2

-1.7

-1.1

Unknown

N/A

131

Lectin

-16.0

-5.9

-1.3

Ligand binding or carrier

82%

132

CoxI

-4.9

+1.0

+1.1

Respiratory-chain enzyme

100%

133

Scp1

-2.4

-1.2

-1.7

Small chemosensory protein

74%

134

ATPsynthase F0-6

-14.1

-1.4

-1.0

Proton pump, ATP synthesis

100%

136

Unknown

N/A

+1.2

+4.3

Unknown

N/A

138

Gs2

N/A

+1.8

+3.5

Glutamine synthase

77%

143

Unknown

N/A

-1.0

+3.4

Unknown

N/A

147

CG5586

N/A

-1.3

-3.2

WD40 and SOCS domain-containing protein

38%

148

Aminotransferase

-2.6

-1.4

-3.5

Ornithine-oxo-acid aminotransferase

73%

  1. bEST number, cDNA number; gene, gene identifier; array data, fold change calculated from array hybridization data using pairwise comparisons for heads, abdomens and caffeine-treated bees; predicted function, putative function inferred from sequence similarity; Percentage similarity to the closest relative in GenBank. Accession numbers of bESTs reported in this paper: 5, BI946410; 22, BI946425; 28, BI946431; 30, BI946433; 31, BI946435; 36, BI946440; 54, BI946454; 56, BI946456; 57, BI946458; 61, BI946461; 82, BI946480; 92, BI946487; 97, BI946490; 99, BI946493; mrjp2 (102), af000632; gld (105), ab022907; 108, BI946499; 109, BI946500; 112, BI946503; 121, BI946511; 122, BI946512; 123, BI946513; 124, BI946514; hymenoptaecin (125), amu15956; 127, BI946517; 128, BI946519; 129, BI946520; 130, BI946522; 131, BI946524; 132, BI946525; 133, BI946526; 134, BI946527; 136, BI946528; 138, BI946532; 143, BI946537; 147, BI946542; 148, BI946543.