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Manfredini F, Wurm Y, Sumner S, Leadbeater E. Transcriptomic responses to location learning by honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the brains of dance-followers. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20232274. [PMID: 38113935 PMCID: PMC10730293 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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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 assess the locations of forage sites that they have visited for representation on the dancefloor are now well-understood, but few studies have considered the remarkable backward translation of such information into flight vectors by dance-followers. Here, we explore whether the gene expression patterns that are induced through individual learning about foraging locations are mirrored when bees learn about those same locations from their nest-mates. We first confirmed that the mushroom bodies of honeybee dancers show a specific transcriptomic response to learning about distance, and then showed that approximately 5% of those genes were also differentially expressed by bees that follow dances for the same foraging sites, but had never visited them. A subset of these genes were also differentially expressed when we manipulated distance perception through an optic flow paradigm, and responses to learning about target direction were also in part mirrored in the brains of dance followers. Our findings show a molecular footprint of the transfer of learnt information from one animal to another through this extraordinary communication system, highlighting the dynamic role of the genome in mediating even very short-term behavioural changes.
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- Fabio Manfredini
- Present address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UL Aberdeen, UK
- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, TW20 OEX Egham, UK
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- School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS London, UK
- Digital Environment Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, TW20 OEX Egham, UK
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Bovo S, Utzeri VJ, Ribani A, Taurisano V, Schiavo G, Fontanesi L. A genotyping by sequencing approach can disclose Apis mellifera population genomic information contained in honey environmental DNA. Sci Rep 2022; 12:19541. [PMID: 36379985 PMCID: PMC9666642 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24101-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Awareness has been raised over the last years on the genetic integrity of autochthonous honey bee subspecies. Genomic tools available in Apis mellifera can make it possible to measure this information by targeting individual honey bee DNA. Honey contains DNA traces from all organisms that contributed or were involved in its production steps, including the honey bees of the colony. In this study, we designed and tested a genotyping by sequencing (GBS) assay to analyse single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of A. mellifera nuclear genome using environmental DNA extracted from honey. A total of 121 SNPs (97 SNPs informative for honey bee subspecies identification and 24 SNPs associated with relevant traits of the colonies) were used in the assay to genotype honey DNA, which derives from thousands of honey bees. Results were integrated with information derived from previous studies and whole genome resequencing datasets. This GBS method is highly reliable in estimating honey bee SNP allele frequencies of the whole colony from which the honey derived. This assay can be used to identify the honey bee subspecies of the colony that produced the honey and, in turn, to authenticate the entomological origin of the honey.
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- Samuele Bovo
- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Division of Animal Sciences, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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Groeneveld LF, Kirkerud LA, Dahle B, Sunding M, Flobakk M, Kjos M, Henriques D, Pinto MA, Berg P. Conservation of the dark bee ( Apis mellifera mellifera): Estimating C-lineage introgression in Nordic breeding stocks. ACTA AGR SCAND A-AN 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/09064702.2020.1770327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- L. F. Groeneveld
- Farm Animal Section, The Nordic Genetic Resource Center, Ås, Norway
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- Norges Birøkterlag, Kløfta, Norway
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- The Danish Agricultural Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
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- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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Yunusbaev UB, Kaskinova MD, Ilyasov RA, Gaifullina LR, Saltykova ES, Nikolenko AG. The Role of Whole-Genome Studies in the Investigation of Honey Bee Biology. RUSS J GENET+ 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s102279541906019x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Dogantzis KA, Zayed A. Recent advances in population and quantitative genomics of honey bees. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2019; 31:93-98. [PMID: 31109680 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The increase in the availability of individual Apis mellifera genomes has resulted in significant progress toward understanding the evolution and adaptation of the honey bee. These efforts have identified new subspecies, evolutionary lineages, and a significant number of genes involved with adaptations and colony-level quantitative traits. Many studies have also developed genetic assays that are being used to monitor the movement and admixture of honey bee populations. These resources are valuable for conservation and breeding programs that seek to improve the economic value of colonies or preserve locally adapted populations and subspecies. This review provides a brief discussion on how population and quantitative genomic studies has improved our understanding of the honey bee.
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- Kathleen A Dogantzis
- Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Elsik CG, Tayal A, Unni DR, Burns GW, Hagen DE. Hymenoptera Genome Database: Using HymenopteraMine to Enhance Genomic Studies of Hymenopteran Insects. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1757:513-556. [PMID: 29761469 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7737-6_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD; http://hymenopteragenome.org ) is a genome informatics resource for insects of the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, ants and wasps. HGD provides genome browsers with manual annotation tools (JBrowse/Apollo), BLAST, bulk data download, and a data mining warehouse (HymenopteraMine). This chapter focuses on the use of HymenopteraMine to create annotation data sets that can be exported for use in downstream analyses. HymenopteraMine leverages the InterMine platform to combine genome assemblies and official gene sets with data from OrthoDB, RefSeq, FlyBase, Gene Ontology, UniProt, InterPro, KEGG, Reactome, dbSNP, PubMed, and BioGrid, as well as precomputed gene expression information based on publicly available RNAseq. Built-in template queries provide starting points for data exploration, while the QueryBuilder tool supports construction of complex custom queries. The List Analysis and Genomic Regions search tools execute queries based on uploaded lists of identifiers and genome coordinates, respectively. HymenopteraMine facilitates cross-species data mining based on orthology and supports meta-analyses by tracking identifiers across gene sets and genome assemblies.
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- Christine G Elsik
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
- MU Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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In this article, I seek to update the sociogenomic model of personality traits (Roberts & Jackson, 2008). Specifically, I seek to outline a broader and more comprehensive theoretical perspective on personality traits than offered in the original version of the sociogenomic model of personality traits. First, I review the major points of our 2008 article. Second, I update our earlier model mostly with insights derived from a deeper reading of evolutionary theoretical systems, such as those found in life-history theory and ecological-evolutionary-developmental biology. In particular, this revision incorporates two evolutionary-informed systems, labeled pliable and elastic systems, that provide new insights into how personality traits develop. Third, I describe some of the implications of this new understanding of the biological and evolutionary architecture that underlies human phenotypes such as personality traits.
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- Brent W Roberts
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of Tübingen
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