Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2011, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (17): 3649-3657.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2011.17.018

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Advanced Research on Honeybee Proteome

LI  Jian-Ke, FENG  Mao, ZHENG  Ai-Juan   

  1. 1.中国农业科学院蜜蜂研究所
    2.中国农业科学院饲料研究所
  • Received:2010-10-11 Revised:2010-11-23 Online:2011-09-01 Published:2011-01-04

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Abstract: Honeybee plays an important role for the nature and the human. It is crucial for agriculture as a facilitator of pollination and indispensable to maintain the biological diversity of the ecological system. Also, bee products are widely used for their nutrition and health care functions to the mankind. The proteomic researches on honeybee have been ushered into a new stage since the completion of the honeybee genome sequencing project. And the combination of two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry is the most popular method in honeybee proteome investigations. This paper reviewed the advances in honeybee proteomics concerning the development of honeybee egg, larva, pupa, hypopharyngeal gland and caste differentiation, the comparison between nurses and foragers, the analysis of some tissues and organs such as honeybee head, thorax, hemolymph, venom gland, queen spermathecal gland, male accessory gland and sperm, the studies on royal jelly, pollen, honeybee venom and so on, hoping to provide some clues for future studies.

Key words: honeybee, proteomics, advance, application

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