Honey Bee Kinesins

Apis Mellifera

In order to find all the kinesins known (sequenced) of Apis Mellifera (the honey bee), I first looked on the e! ensembl database and did a Blastp search in the honey bee genome against the kinesin heavy chain sequence (amino acids 1-350) of Drosophila melanogaster. The results were good, but it yielded many insignificant results, even though they had very low e values. To find better results, I used NCBI’s PSI-Blast program. I limited the search to only Apis Mellifera, and no iterations were necessary. It returned 21 hits, all representative of non repeated kinesin proteins. I didn’t have much trouble finding the kinesins, and would recommend the e!Ensembl and NCBI databases for specific Blast searches.
Links to Search Results:
e!ensembl Blast Search Results
Results of PSI-Blast
PSI-Blast Taxonomy View