What is it about?
Honeybee foraging an exceptionally well organized behavior. Understanding its mechanism could reveal many complex social behavioral components of higher animals and humans at the molecular and cellular level. : Immediate early genes are rapidly transcribed genes in response to cellular stimuli leading to neuronal activities. This study investigates immediate early genes that involve in honey bee foraging that could be used as search tools in finding honey foraging regulatory molecules.
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Why is it important?
In this article we for the first time able to show few genes that regulates honeybee foraging behavior in a very much like natural condition. It has open a wide door to find the molecular and cellular players that monitor social behavior of honeybees that occur in the physiological conditions.
Perspectives
It was an enormous pleasure to write this article with my co-author. Finding the genes that regulate honeybee foraging in a very much like natural condition is the most unique nature of this article. I hope every reader of this article will love this unique nature. Now there is so much to go further.
Dr Asem Surindro Singh
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This page is a summary of: Honey bee foraging induces upregulation of early growth response protein 1
, hormone receptor 38
and candidate downstream genes of the ecdysteroid signalling pathway, Insect Molecular Biology, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/imb.12350.
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Immediate early gene kakusei potentially plays a role in the daily foraging of honey bees
kakusei is a non-coding RNA that is overexpressed in foraging bee brain. This study describes a possible role of the IEG kakusei during the daily foraging of honey bees. kakusei was found to be transiently upregulated within two hours during rewarded foraging. Interestingly, during unrewarded foraging the gene was also found to be up-regulated, but immediately lowered when food was not rewarded. Moreover, the kakusei overexpression was diminished within a very short time when the time schedule of feeding was changed. This indicates the potential role of kakusei on the motivation of learned reward foraging. These results provide evidence for a dynamic role of kakusei during for aging of bees, and eventually its possible involvement in learning and memory. Thus the kakusei gene could be used as search tool in finding distinct molecular pathways that mediate diverse behavioral components of foraging.
Immediate early gene kakusei potentially plays a role in the daily foraging of honey bees
kakusei is a non-coding RNA that is overexpressed in foraging bee brain. This study describes a possible role of the IEG kakusei during the daily foraging of honey bees. kakusei was found to be transiently upregulated within two hours during rewarded foraging. Interestingly, during unrewarded foraging the gene was also found to be up-regulated, but immediately lowered when food was not rewarded. Moreover, the kakusei overexpression was diminished within a very short time when the time schedule of feeding was changed. This indicates the potential role of kakusei on the motivation of learned reward foraging. These results provide evidence for a dynamic role of kakusei during for aging of bees, and eventually its possible involvement in learning and memory. Thus the kakusei gene could be used as search tool in finding distinct molecular pathways that mediate diverse behavioral components of foraging.
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