... implicated in division of labor. In contrast to the brain gene expression results, antagomir-mediated knockdown of ame-miR-305-5p caused minimal changes in fat body gene expression which included one JH-associated gene, the JH-responsive TF Kr-h1 . In honey bees and other social insects, Kr-h1...

... from the field of nutritional immunology, and we then investigate how factors such as intracellular and extracellular symbionts, sociality and transgenerational effects may interact with the connection between nutrition and immunity. We show that the interactions between nutrition and resistance can...

...Chloé A. Melanson; Simon G. Lamarre; Suzanne Currie ABSTRACT Understanding the factors affecting the capacity of ectothermic fishes to cope with warming temperature is critical given predicted climate change scenarios. We know that a fish's social environment introduces plasticity in how...

...Mallory A. Hagadorn; Makenna M. Johnson; Adam R. Smith; Marc A. Seid; Karen M. Kapheim ABSTRACT In social insects, changes in behavior are often accompanied by structural changes in the brain. This neuroplasticity may come with experience (experience-dependent) or age (experience-expectant). Yet...

...Hannah M. Anderson; Alexander G. Little; David N. Fisher; Brendan L. McEwen; Brett M. Culbert; Sigal Balshine; Jonathan N. Pruitt ABSTRACT Intra-group social stability is important for the long-term productivity and health of social organisms. We evaluated the effect of group size on group...

...Susan J. Cunningham; Michelle L. Thompson; Andrew E. McKechnie ABSTRACT Climate change has the potential to trigger social change. As a first step towards understanding mechanisms determining the vulnerability of animal societies to rising temperatures, we investigated interactions between social...