Sociogenomics of honeybees. From genes to society

蜜蜂的社会基因组学。

• 批准号: DP0450569
• 负责人: Prof Benjamin Oldroyd
• 金额: $ 41.78万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-02-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0450569
• 关键词: Sociogenomics; honeybees.; genes; society

This project will show how complex social behaviour of honeybees like dance communication and thermoregulation is genetically controlled. The complete sequence of the honeybee genome will be published in 2003, and a gene chip based on it will be created shortly afterwards. These new technologies will make our project technically feasible. By backcrossing, workers with different genetic tendencies to do a task can be generated within an otherwise uniform background. Age-matched workers that perform a behaviour like thermoregulation can be compared to sisters that do not, and the genes that are switched on in the two groups compared.

这个项目将展示蜜蜂复杂的社会行为，如舞蹈、交流和体温调节是如何由基因控制的。 蜜蜂基因组的完整序列将于2003年公布，随后不久将制作出基于该序列的基因芯片。这些新技术将使我们的项目在技术上可行。通过回交，可以在统一的背景下产生具有不同遗传倾向的工人来完成任务。 进行体温调节等行为的工作者可以与不进行体温调节的姐妹篇进行比较，并比较两组中开启的基因。