RESEARCH ARTICLE Conservation in Mammals of Genes Associated with Aggression-Related Behavioral Phenotypes in Honey Bees Hui Liu1, Gene E. Robinson2,3,4, Eric Jakobsson1,2,4,5,6,7* 1 Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 2 Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 3 Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 4 Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 5 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United a11111 States of America, 6 National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, 7 Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America *
[email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Liu H, Robinson GE, Jakobsson E (2016) The emerging field of sociogenomics explores the relations between social behavior and Conservation in Mammals of Genes Associated with genome structure and function. An important question is the extent to which associations Aggression-Related Behavioral Phenotypes in Honey between social behavior and gene expression are conserved among the Metazoa. Prior Bees. PLoS Comput Biol 12(6): e1004921. experimental work in an invertebrate model of social behavior, the honey bee, revealed doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004921 distinct brain gene expression patterns in African and European honey bees, and within Editor: Hans A.