Gene Expression Profiles in the Brain Predict Behavior in Individual Honey Bees

By C. Whitfield, A. Czikó, Gene E. Robinson. Science, 2003

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Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes (2010, background): “…determination (Kraak and Pen 2002), wing polymorphisms in crickets (Zera and Huang 1999), seasonal polyphenisms and partial bivoltinism (Dingle and Winchell 1997, Nijhout 1999), the expression of insect castes (Nijhout and Wheeler 1982), and the age polyethism in honeybees (Whitfield et al. 2003).”
The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “Indeed, in honey bees, behavioral transitions across tasks (often referred to as task polyethism) correlate with widespread changes in brain gene expression (Whitfield et al., 2003, 2006; Alaux et al., 2009).”
Plasticity of olfactory‐guided behaviour and its neurobiological basis: lessons from moths and locusts (2007, background): “…have shown that gene expression profiles change in individual adult insects, e.g., during the caste determination of honeybees when nurses change into foragers (Whitfield et al., 2003), and in migratory locusts when they change between the solitarious and the gregarious phase (Kang et al., 2004).”
Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “Researchers are closing in on isolating the genes that encode particular behavioral traits (Ben‐Shahar et al., 2002, 2003; Rueppell et al., 2004a,b; Whitfield et al., 2003).”