Transcriptomic analysis of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen spermathecae reveals genes that may be involved in sperm storage after mating

• Juliana Rangel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jrangel@tamu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0586-9245

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• Tonya F. Shepherd,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Alejandra N. Gonzalez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Andrew Hillhouse,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Texas A&M Institute of Genome Sciences and Society, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Kranti Konganti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Texas A&M Institute of Genome Sciences and Society, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Nancy H. Ing

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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