Selected Papers from the Robinson Lab
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Sociogenomics
- Research provides genetic links between socially unresponsive honey bees and human autism
- Genomic Signatures of the Evolution of Bee Societies
- Bee Brain EST Project
- Gene Expression Profiles in the Brain Predict Behavior in Individual Honey Bees
- Social Regulation of the Expression of the Period Gene
- Social Regulation of the Expression of the Foraging Gene
- Effects of the Foraging Gene on Phototaxis
- Genetic determination of guarding and undertaking in honey-bee colonies
- Brain Gene Expression Analysis Reveals Evolutionary Link Between Maternal Behavior and Altruism
- Brain transcriptomic analysis in paper wasps identifies genes associated with behaviour across social insect lineages
- Genes involved in convergent evolution of eusociality in bees
- Study of bees links gene regulatory networks in the brain to behavior
- Molecular evolution in bees
- Behavioral plasticity in honey bees is associated with major differences in brain microRNA transcriptome
- From one genome to alternative phenotypes: The honey bee larval methylomes reveal the dynamics of epigenomic settings implemented by differential dietary inputs
- New method of manipulating gene expression in honey bees
- Brain regions and molecular pathways responding to food reward type and value in honey bees
- New genomic resource for an important facultatively eusocial bee
- New behavioral assay for genomic analyses of nursing behavior
- Genetic variants implicated in scouting behavior
- New insights into transcriptional architecture of division of labor
- A soft selective sweep during rapid evolution of gentle behaviour in an Africanized honeybee
- Individual differences in honey bee behavior enabled by plasticity in brain gene regulatory networks
Reviews
- Beyond Nature and Nurture
- Sociogenomics: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Sociogenomics: Nature Reviews Genetics
- Sociogenomics: BioEssays
- Science: Genes and Social Behavior
- Neurochemical Regulation of Division of Labor
- Gene Expression and the Evolution of Behavioral Plasticity
- Evo-Devo and Evolution of Social Behavior
- Science: Behavior and the Dynamic Genome
- Understanding the Relationship Between Brain Gene Expression and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee
- Dissecting social diversity in the brain
The Bee Hive as a Complex System
- Barcoded bees used to reveal surprising properties of honey bee social network
- Social Inhibition of Division of Labor
- Automated monitoring reveals extreme interindividual variation and plasticity in honeybee foraging activity levels
Chemical Ecology
- Regulation of Behavioral Maturation by a Primer Pheromone Produced by Adult Worker Honey Bees
- Pheromone Modulation of Rate of Behavioral Development (with the laboratory of Dr. Yves LeConte, INRA, France)
- Pheromone Regulation of Brain Gene Expression
- Behaviorally Related Changes in Labial Gland Secretion
- Regulation of brain gene expression in honey bees by brood pheromone
Brain and Behavior
- Neuroendocrine (Juvenile Hormone) Influence on Rate of Behavioral Development
- Changes in the Structure of the Mushroom Bodies and Antennal Lobes (with the laboratory of Prof. Susan Fahrbach)
- Octopamine Influences Behavioral Development
- Limits to Brain Plasticity
- Cellular Basis of Brain Plasticity
- Octopamine and Juvenile Hormone Interactions in the Regulation of Behavioral Development
- Octopamine Dynamics in the Bee Brain
- PERIOD Cells in the Bee Brain
- Acetylcholinesterase Gene: Learning and Memory and Division of Labor (with the laboratory of Prof. Hermona Soreq, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
- Behavioral development in the honey bee: toward the study of learning under natural conditions
- Volume Changes in the Mushroom Bodies of Adult Honey Bee Queens
- Transcriptional response to foraging experience in the honey bee mushroom bodies
- Microarray analysis of natural socially-regulated plasticity in circadian rhythms of honey bees
- Transcriptomic analysis of instinctive and learned reward-related behaviors in honey bees
- Brain regions and molecular pathways responding to food reward type and value in honey bees
Division of Labor: Cognitive Analyses
- Learning and Memory: Orientation Behavior Revealed by Harmonic Radar
- Differences in Performance on a Reversal Learning Test and Division of Labor in Honey Bee Colonies
- Effects of Satiation on Learning Performance
Evolutionary Genetics
- Genetic Variation for Rate of Behavioral Development and Related Mechanisms
- Genetic determination of guarding and undertaking in honey-bee colonies
- Genetic specialists, kin recognition and nepotism in honey-bee colonies
Colony Collapse Disorder
Systems Biology of Social Behavior
- New meta-analysis tools reveal shared cis-regulatory architecture for different behavior-determining factors
- The transcription factor Ultraspiracle influences honey bee social behavior and behavior-related gene expression.
- Behavior-specific changes in transcriptional modules lead to distinct and predictable neurogenomic states
Aggression
- Neuromolecular responses to social challenge: Common mechanisms across mouse, stickleback fish, and honey bee
- Socially responsive effects of brain oxidative metabolism on aggression
- Manipulation of colony environment modulates honey bee aggression and brain gene expression
- Honey bee aggression supports a link between gene regulation and behavioral evolution
- Behavioral Genetic Toolkits: Toward the Evolutionary Origins of Complex Phenotypes
- Genomic regions influencing aggressive behavior in honey bees are defined by colony allele frequencies
