| Title |
Individual Variation in Pheromone Response Correlates with Reproductive Traits and Brain Gene Expression in Worker Honey Bees
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0009116 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sarah D. Kocher, Julien F. Ayroles, Eric A. Stone, Christina M. Grozinger |
| Abstract |
Variation in individual behavior within social groups can affect the fitness of the group as well as the individual, and can be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. However, the molecular factors associated with individual variation in social behavior remain relatively unexplored. We used honey bees (Apis mellifera) as a model to examine differences in socially-regulated behavior among individual workers, and used transcriptional profiling to determine if specific gene expression patterns are associated with these individual differences. In honey bees, the reproductive queen produces a pheromonal signal that regulates many aspects of worker behavior and physiology and maintains colony organization. |
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| United States | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Croatia | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 89 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 26% |
| Researcher | 20 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 16% |
| Unknown | 10 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 65 | 67% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Unknown | 10 | 10% |