Transcription profiling of honey bee brain and ovary reveals pheromone response is correlated with reproductive traits and brain gene expression in individual honey bees

ABSTRACT: In honey bees (Apis mellifera), the reproductive queen produces a pheromonal signal that regulates many aspects of worker behavior and physiology and is critical for maintaining colony organization. Queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) inhibits worker reproduction, attracts workers from a short distance (retinue response), inhibits the rearing of new queens, modulates age-related division of labor and globally alters brain gene expression in worker bees. Interestingly, substantial variation in worker retinue responses to QMP has been found between colonies, but the molecular and physiological bases for variation in individual responses to the queen have not been characterized. Here, we demonstrate that individual retinue response is negatively correlated with traits associated with reproduc

ORGANISM(S): Apis mellifera

SUBMITTER: Christina Grozinger 

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-1724 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress