Sociogenomics of honeybees. From genes to society

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受到基因控制的。蜜蜂基因组的完整序列将于2003年公布，随后将研制出以该序列为基础的基因芯片。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一项任务。年龄相匹配的工蜂会表现出体温调节的行为，可以与没有表现出体温调节行为的工蜂进行比较，并对两组工蜂的基因进行比较。

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.