Martin Beye

Summary

Affiliation: Martin Luther University
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Evidence for convergent nucleotide evolution and high allelic turnover rates at the complementary sex determiner gene of Western and Asian honeybees
    Martin Hasselmann
    Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf, Institut fuer Genetik, Universitaetsstr, Duesseldorf, Germany
    Mol Biol Evol 25:696-708. 2008
  2. ncbi Specific developmental gene silencing in the honey bee using a homeobox motif
    M Beye
    Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Institut fur Zoologie, Molekulare Okologie, Halle, Germany
    Insect Mol Biol 11:527-32. 2002
  3. ncbi The gene csd is the primary signal for sexual development in the honeybee and encodes an SR-type protein
    Martin Beye
    Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Institut fur Zoologie, Biozentrum, Weinberg Weg 22, 06120, Halle, Germany
    Cell 114:419-29. 2003
  4. ncbi The dice of fate: the csd gene and how its allelic composition regulates sexual development in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
    Martin Beye
    Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Institut fur Zoologie, Weinberg Weg 22, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Bioessays 26:1131-9. 2004
  5. ncbi Signatures of selection among sex-determining alleles of the honey bee
    Martin Hasselmann
    Institut fur Zoologie, Biozentrum, Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Weinberg Weg 22, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:4888-93. 2004
  6. ncbi Patterns of conservation and change in honey bee developmental genes
    Peter K Dearden
    Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
    Genome Res 16:1376-84. 2006
  7. ncbi Evidence for the evolutionary nascence of a novel sex determination pathway in honeybees
    Martin Hasselmann
    Department of Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Universitaetsstrasse 1, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
    Nature 454:519-22. 2008
  8. ncbi Exceptionally high levels of recombination across the honey bee genome
    Martin Beye
    Institute of Genetics, Heinrich Heine Universität Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf 40225, Germany
    Genome Res 16:1339-44. 2006
  9. ncbi The genetic architecture of sucrose responsiveness in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)
    Olav Rueppell
    School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 4501, USA
    Genetics 172:243-51. 2006
  10. ncbi Behavioral genomics of honeybee foraging and nest defense
    Greg J Hunt
    Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
    Naturwissenschaften 94:247-67. 2007

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Evidence for convergent nucleotide evolution and high allelic turnover rates at the complementary sex determiner gene of Western and Asian honeybees
    Martin Hasselmann
    Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf, Institut fuer Genetik, Universitaetsstr, Duesseldorf, Germany
    Mol Biol Evol 25:696-708. 2008
    ..e., N(e) < 10(4)), but not high mutation rates, can explain short maintenance times, implicating a strong historical impact of genetic drift on the molecular evolution of highly social honeybees...
  2. ncbi Specific developmental gene silencing in the honey bee using a homeobox motif
    M Beye
    Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Institut fur Zoologie, Molekulare Okologie, Halle, Germany
    Insect Mol Biol 11:527-32. 2002
    ..This is the first report of targeted disruption of gene function in the honey bee, and the results prove that the chosen target gene is a functional ortholog to engrailed in Drosophila...
  3. ncbi The gene csd is the primary signal for sexual development in the honeybee and encodes an SR-type protein
    Martin Beye
    Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Institut fur Zoologie, Biozentrum, Weinberg Weg 22, 06120, Halle, Germany
    Cell 114:419-29. 2003
    ..Structural similarity of csd with tra genes of Dipteran insects suggests some functional relation of what would otherwise appear to be unrelated sex-determination mechanisms...
  4. ncbi The dice of fate: the csd gene and how its allelic composition regulates sexual development in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
    Martin Beye
    Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Institut fur Zoologie, Weinberg Weg 22, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Bioessays 26:1131-9. 2004
    ..Comparison to hierarchies of dipteran insects suggests that SR-type protein has facilitated the differentiation of sex-determining systems and hierarchies...
  5. ncbi Signatures of selection among sex-determining alleles of the honey bee
    Martin Hasselmann
    Institut fur Zoologie, Biozentrum, Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg, Weinberg Weg 22, 06120 Halle, Germany
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:4888-93. 2004
    ..Moreover, the first csd sequence data are a notable basis for the avoidance of diploid males in bee selection programs by allele-assisted breeding...
  6. ncbi Patterns of conservation and change in honey bee developmental genes
    Peter K Dearden
    Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
    Genome Res 16:1376-84. 2006
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  7. ncbi Evidence for the evolutionary nascence of a novel sex determination pathway in honeybees
    Martin Hasselmann
    Department of Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Universitaetsstrasse 1, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
    Nature 454:519-22. 2008
    ..The fem locus in bees uncovers gene duplication and positive selection as evolutionary mechanisms underlying the origin of a novel sex determination pathway...
  8. ncbi Exceptionally high levels of recombination across the honey bee genome
    Martin Beye
    Institute of Genetics, Heinrich Heine Universität Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf 40225, Germany
    Genome Res 16:1339-44. 2006
    ..Very few transposons and no retrotransposons are present in the high-recombining genome. We propose evolutionary explanations for the exceptionally high genome-wide recombination rate...
  9. ncbi The genetic architecture of sucrose responsiveness in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)
    Olav Rueppell
    School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 4501, USA
    Genetics 172:243-51. 2006
    ..Understanding this behavioral syndrome is important for understanding the division of labor in social insects and social evolution itself...
  10. ncbi Behavioral genomics of honeybee foraging and nest defense
    Greg J Hunt
    Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
    Naturwissenschaften 94:247-67. 2007
    ..These studies are the first step in linking natural variation in honeybee social behavior to the identification of underlying genes...
  11. ncbi The genetic architecture of the behavioral ontogeny of foraging in honeybee workers
    Olav Rueppell
    Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina 27402-6174, USA
    Genetics 167:1767-79. 2004
    ..Both maps confirm the extraordinary recombinational size of the honeybee genome. On the basis of these maps, we report four new significant QTL and two more suggestive QTL that influence the initiation of foraging...
  12. ncbi Pronounced differences of recombination activity at the sex determination locus of the honeybee, a locus under strong balancing selection
    Martin Hasselmann
    Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf, Institut fur Genetik, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany
    Genetics 174:1469-80. 2006
    ..The homogenizing force of recombination is reduced within SDL, which preserves allelic differences and specificity, while the increase of recombination activity around SDL relaxes conflict between SDL and linked genes...