Publications

isolation of arginine kinase from apis cerana cerana and its possible involvement in response to adverse stress.	arginine kinases (ak) in invertebrates play the same role as creatine kinases in vertebrates. both proteins are important for energy metabolism, and previous studies on ak focused on this attribute. in this study, the arginine kinase gene was isolated from apis cerana cerana and was named accak. a 5'-flanking region was also cloned and shown to contain abundant putative binding sites for transcription factors related to development and response to adverse stress. we imitated several abiotic and ...	2015	25135575
first detection of the larval chalkbrood disease pathogen ascosphaera apis (ascomycota: eurotiomycetes: ascosphaerales) in adult bumble bees.	fungi in the genus ascosphaera (ascomycota: eurotiomycetes: ascosphaerales) cause chalkbrood disease in larvae of bees. here, we report the first-ever detection of the fungus in adult bumble bees that were raised in captivity for studies on colony development. wild queens of bombus griseocollis, b. nevadensis and b. vosnesenskii were collected and maintained for establishment of nests. queens that died during rearing or that did not lay eggs within one month of capture were dissected, and tissue ...	2015	25885679