The ability to learn the location of places in the world and to revisit them repeatedly is crucial
for all aspects of animal life on earth. It underpins animal foraging, predator avoidance …

Behavior is a complex phenotype that is plastic and evolutionarily labile. The advent of
genomics has revolutionized the field of behavioral genetics by providing tools to quantify …

Honey bee dance has been intensively studied as a communication system, and yet we still
know very little about the neurobiological mechanisms supporting how dances are produced …

The natural history of adult worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) provides an opportunity to
study the molecular basis of learning in an ecological context. Foragers must learn to …

The waggle dances of honeybees are a strikingly complex form of animal communication
that underlie the collective foraging behaviour of colonies. The mechanisms by which bees …

In 2006, the full complement of DNA sequence information (or 'genome') of the Western
honey bee, Apis mellifera, was published. This important resource was one of the most …

Enriched environmental conditions induce neuroanatomical plasticity in a variety of
vertebrate and invertebrate species. We explored the molecular processes associated with …

Honey bees can form distinct spatiotemporal memories that allow them to return repeatedly
to different food sources at different times of day. Although it is becoming increasingly clear …

The biology of honey bees involves a host of developmental, behavioral, and physiological
components that allow thousands of individual bees to form complex social units. Fueled by …

The molecular characterization of complex behaviours is a challenging task as a range of
different factors are often involved to produce the observed phenotype. An established …