Understanding the relationship between brain gene expression and social behavior: Lessons from the honey bee

摘要: Behavior is a complex phenotype that plastic and evolutionarily labile. The advent of genomics has revolutionized the field behavioral ge- netics by providing tools to quantify dynamic nature brain gene expression in relation output. honey bee Apis mel- lifera provides an excellent platform for investigating relationship between behavior given both remarkable repertoire expressed members its intricate society degree which influenced heredity social environment. Here, we review linked series studies assayed changes transcriptomes associated with natural experimentally induced state. These experiments demonstrate closely behav- ior, mediate behavior, association specific genes exists over multiple timescales, from physiological evolutionary.