Background Honey bees are known for several striking social behaviors, including a
complex pattern of behavioral maturation that gives rise to an age-related colony division of …

Honey bees undergo an age-related, socially regulated transition from working in the hive to
foraging that has been previously associated with changes in the expression of thousands of …

Honey bee colonies exhibit an age-related division of labor, with worker bees performing
discrete sets of behaviors throughout their lifespan. These behavioral states are associated …

Background The information from multiple microarray experiments can be integrated in an
objective manner via meta-analysis. However, multiple meta-analysis approaches are …

A key characteristic of eusocial species is reproductive division of labour. Honey bee
colonies typically have a single reproductive queen and thousands of sterile workers. Adult …

Honey bees are important model organisms for neurobiology, because they display a large
array of behaviors. To link behavior with individual gene function, quantitative polymerase …

Abstract Background The honeybee (Apis mellifera) has been used with great success in a
variety of behavioral studies. The lack of genomic tools in this species has, however …

Background We conducted a large-scale transcriptomic profiling of selected regions of the
central nervous system (CNS) across three species of honey bees, in foragers that were …

Nervous and neuroendocrine systems mediate environmental conditions to control a variety
of life history traits. Our goal was to provide mechanistic insights as to how neurosecretory …

Honeybees live in complex societies whose capabilities far exceed those of the sum of their
single members. This social synergism is achieved mainly by the worker bees, which form a …