Insulin signaling is involved in the regulation of worker division of labor in honey bee colonies - Ament, Seth A; Corona, Miguel; Pollock, Henry S; Robinson, Gene E (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2008)
Keywords: Animal behavior; Animal communication; Animals; Apis mellifera; Bees; Bees - metabolism; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Biological Sciences; Brain - metabolism; DNA, Complementary - genetics; Drosophila melanogaster; Energy balance; Energy metabolism; Feeding behavior; Forage; Foraging; foraging honey bees; Gene expression; Gene Expression Regulation; Honey; Honey bee colonies; Honey bees; hormonal regulation; Insect behavior; Insect colonies; Insect genetics; Insulin; Insulin - metabolism; insulin-like growth factor; Larvae; Male; Medical personnel; microarray technology; Nurses; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases - metabolism; Pollen; polyethism; Processed foods; Receptor, Insulin - metabolism; Receptors, Neuropeptide - genetics; Receptors, Neuropeptide - metabolism; Signal Transduction; Social Behavior; Social insects; worker honey bees