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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Apis mellifera
SUBMITTER: Zeeshan Fazal
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-586 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Journal of biological rhythms 20120201 1
Honey bee workers care for ("nurse") the brood around the clock without circadian rhythmicity, but then they forage outside with strong circadian rhythms and a consolidated nightly rest. This chronobiological plasticity is associated with variation in the expression of the canonical "clock genes" that regulate the circadian clock: nurse bees show no brain rhythms of expression, while foragers do. These results suggest that the circadian system is organized differently in nurses and foragers. Nur ...[more]