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Transcription profiling by array of the brains of bees showing scout and non-scout behaviour


ABSTRACT: Scouts and non-scouts (recruits) were collected by using a novelty-seekingM-^] assay. Experiment was conducted in a large outdoor screened enclosure, which enabled us to exert complete control over the location and number of food resources while at the same time studying naturalistic honey bee foraging behavior. Foragers were first trained to a color-marked training feederM-^] that contained unscented 50% sucrose solution (m/v); this initially was the only food source available to them. After 2-3 days of training, a novel feederM-^] was set up in another location in the enclosure, with different color markings and an odor cue. The training feeder was maintained, providing the bees with two possible foraging locations, a familiar and a novel. Scouts were identified as bees that switched foraging from the training feeder to the novel feeder; only bees seen foraging at the novel feeder two or more times and at least once at the training feeder were collected as scouts. Non-scouts (recruits) were collected at the end of the experiments; these were bees that continued to forage at the training feeder, and were never observed to switch to the novel feeder.

ORGANISM(S): Apis mellifera

SUBMITTER: Christopher Fields 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-491 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Molecular determinants of scouting behavior in honey bees.

Liang Zhengzheng S ZS   Nguyen Trang T   Mattila Heather R HR   Rodriguez-Zas Sandra L SL   Seeley Thomas D TD   Robinson Gene E GE  

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120301 6073


Little is known about the molecular basis of differences in behavior among individuals. Here we report consistent novelty-seeking behavior, across different contexts, among honey bees in their tendency to scout for food sources and nest sites, and we reveal some of the molecular underpinnings of this behavior relative to foragers that do not scout. Food scouts showed extensive differences in brain gene expression relative to other foragers, including differences related to catecholamine, glutama  ...[more]

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