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Research Areas

Selected Papers from the Robinson Lab

• Behavioral development in the honey bee: toward the study of learning under natural conditions
• Genetic determination of guarding and undertaking in honey-bee colonies
• Genetic specialists, kin recognition and nepotism in honey-bee colonies
• Volume Changes in the Mushroom Bodies of Adult Honey Bee Queens

Sociogenomics

• Bee Brain EST Project
• Gene Expression Profiles in the Brain Predict Behavior in Individual Honey Bees
• Social Regulation of the Expression of the Period Gene
• Social Regulation of the Expression of the Foraging Gene
• Effects of the Foraging Gene on Phototaxis
• Genetic determination of guarding and undertaking in honey-bee colonies

Dance Language

• Looking for the Dance Language Center in the Bee Brain
• Brain Gene Expression Analyses of Asian Honey Bees: Entrée to Dance Language
• Octopamine Modulation of Dance Language

Nutritional Influences On Social Behavior

• Bees go on a diet prior to shifting from hive work to foraging
• Abdominal fat loss causes foraging
• Insulin signaling has evolved novel functions to influence division of labor

Comparative Sociogenomics

• Brain Gene Expression Analysis Reveals Evolutionary Link Between Maternal Behavior and Altruism

Reviews

• Beyond Nature and Nurture
• Sociogenomics: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• Sociogenomics: Nature Reviews Genetics
• Sociogenomics: BioEssays
• Science: Genes and Social Behavior
• Neurochemical Regulation of Division of Labor
• Gene Expression and the Evolution of Behavioral Plasticity
• Evo-Devo and Evolution of Social Behavior

Complex Systems Theory

• Social Inhibition of Division of Labor

Chemical Ecology

• Regulation of Behavioral Maturation by a Primer Pheromone Produced by Adult Worker Honey Bees
• Pheromone Modulation of Rate of Behavioral Development (with the laboratory of Dr. Yves LeConte, INRA, France)
• Pheromone Regulation of Brain Gene Expression
• Behaviorally Related Changes in Labial Gland Secretion

Behavioral Neuroscience

• Neuroendocrine (Juvenile Hormone) Influence on Rate of Behavioral Development
• Changes in the Structure of the Mushroom Bodies and Antennal Lobes (with the laboratory of Prof. Susan Fahrbach)
• Octopamine Influences Behavioral Development
• Limits to Brain Plasticity
• Cellular Basis of Brain Plasticity
• Octopamine and Juvenile Hormone Interactions in the Regulation of Behavioral Development
• Octopamine Dynamics in the Bee Brain
• PERIOD Cells in the Bee Brain
• Acetylcholinesterase Gene: Learning and Memory and Division of Labor (with the laboratory of Prof. Hermona Soreq, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Division of Labor: Cognitive Analyses

• Learning and Memory: Orientation Behavior Revealed by Harmonic Radar
• Differences in Performance on a Reversal Learning Test and Division of Labor in Honey Bee Colonies
• Effects of Satiation on Learning Performance

Evolutionary Genetics

• Genetic Variation for Rate of Behavioral Development and Related Mechanisms

Updated Monday, September 7, 2009
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Department of Entomology and Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Urbana, IL 61801 USA