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RNA-sequencing elucidates the regulation of behavioural transitions associated with mating in honey bee queens


ABSTRACT: Mating is a complex process, which is frequently associated with behavioural and physiological changes. However, understanding of the genetic underpinnings of these changes is limited. Honey bees are both a model system in behavioural genomics, and the dominant managed pollinator of human crops; consequently understanding the mating process has both pure and applied value. We used next-generation transcriptomics to probe changes in gene expression in the brains of honey bee queens, as they transition from virgin to mated reproductive status. In addition, we used CO2-narcosis, which induces oviposition without mating, as an experimental control for the mating process. Mating produced significant changes in the expression of vision, chemo-reception, metabolic, and immune-related genes. Differential expression of these genes maps clearly onto known behavioural and physiological changes that occur during the transition from being a virgin queen to a newly-mated queen. A subset of these changes in gene expression were also detected in CO2-treated queens, as predicted from previous physiological studies. In addition, we compared our results to previous studies that used microarray techniques across a range of experimental time-points. Changes in expression of immune- and vision-related genes were common to all studies, supporting an involvement of these groups of genes in the mating process. However, these comparisons also indicate the need to understand the temporal dynamics of gene expression across the entire mating and reproductive process. Brain RNA samples for 3 treatments: control (N=4), mated (N=4) and treated with carbon dioxide (N=4)

ORGANISM(S): Apis mellifera

SUBMITTER: Fabio Manfredini 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-65833 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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RNA-sequencing elucidates the regulation of behavioural transitions associated with the mating process in honey bee queens.

Manfredini Fabio F   Brown Mark J F MJ   Vergoz Vanina V   Oldroyd Benjamin P BP  

BMC genomics 20150731


<h4>Background</h4>Mating is a complex process, which is frequently associated with behavioural and physiological changes. However, understanding of the genetic underpinnings of these changes is limited. Honey bees are both a model system in behavioural genomics, and the dominant managed pollinator of human crops; consequently understanding the mating process has both pure and applied value. We used next-generation transcriptomics to probe changes in gene expression in the brains of honey bee qu  ...[more]

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