The burial of an Apis bull was a major occasion involving vast expenditure.
Most of the ESTs (40) clustered to a sequence corresponding to an Apis mellifera predicted gene similar to CG1486-PA.
Since there was neither a good annotation of the A.m.H gene nor a complete EST sequence available, we cloned A.m.H from an Apis cDNA library.
The final two sequences with predicted molecular functions are CG6910-PA, with inositol oxygenase activity, and an Apis mellifera ribosomal protein LP1 (RpLP1) given as being a structural constituent of ribosomes.
When an Apis bull died, it was buried with great pomp at Ṣaqqārah, in underground galleries known in the classical world as the Serapeum.
Some ancient writers said that he was begotten by a ray of light from heaven, and others claimed that he was sired by an Apis bull.
We organized three mixed colonies consisting of an Apis cerana cerana (Acc) queen, Acc workers and Apis mellifera ligustica (Aml) workers (Figure 1), and two other mixed colonies consisting of an Aml queen, Aml workers and Acc workers.
We organized two types of mixed colonies consisting of an Apis cerana cerana (Acc) queen, Acc workers and Apis mellifera ligustica (Aml) workers, and two other mixed colonies consisting of an Aml queen, Aml workers and Acc workers.
We cloned the gene from an Apis mellifera cDNA library and tested A.m.H gene function in D. melanogaster.
Recently, it was suggested that an Apis cerana cerana gene belonging to this class displayed protective effects against oxidative stress [ 65].
To assess poly(A)+ RNA quality of the samples we performed Northern blot hybridizations with an actin (Apis mellifera) or tubulin (Drosophila melanogaster) probe.
