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Transcription profiling of Polistes metricus brains from four adult behavioral states: solitary foundresses, foraging workers, queens, and pre-overwintering gynes

ABSTRACT: This experiment compared gene expression in individual brains of field collected Polistes metricus in four adult behavioral states: solitary foundresses, foraging workers, queens, and pre-overwintering gynes.

ORGANISM(S): Polistes metricus

SUBMITTER: Amy Toth

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2558 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Brain transcriptomic analysis in paper wasps identifies genes associated with behaviour across social insect lineages.

Toth Amy L AL Varala Kranthi K Henshaw Michael T MT Rodriguez-Zas Sandra L SL Hudson Matthew E ME Robinson Gene E GE

Proceedings. Biological sciences 20100317 1691

Comparative sociogenomics has the potential to provide important insights into how social behaviour evolved. We examined brain gene expression profiles of the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes metricus and compared the results with a growing base of brain gene expression information for the advanced eusocial honeybee, Apis mellifera. We studied four female wasp groups that show variation in foraging/provisioning behaviour and reproductive status, using our newly developed microarray representin ...[more]

PMID: 20236980

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