Mixing of honeybees with different genotypes affects individual worker behavior and transcription of genes in the neuronal substrate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gempe, Tanja ^a   Stach, Silke ^b   Bienefeld, Kaspar ^b   Beye, Martin ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute for Bee Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH; HONEYBEE; HYGIENIC BEHAVIOR; NEURONAL SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; BEE; GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENOTYPE; NEURONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84856854382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031653     Document Type: Article

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