Search Results - "Kocher, Sarah D."
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SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking
Published in Nature methods (01-04-2022)“…The desire to understand how the brain generates and patterns behavior has driven rapid methodological innovation in tools to quantify natural animal behavior…”
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Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-06-2015)“…The evolution of eusociality is one of the major transitions in evolution, but the underlying genomic changes are unknown. We compared the genomes of 10 bee…”
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Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect
Published in Nature communications (03-04-2018)“…Individuals in social insect colonies cooperate to perform collective work. While colonies often respond to changing environmental conditions by flexibly…”
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The genetic basis of a social polymorphism in halictid bees
Published in Nature communications (18-10-2018)“…The emergence of eusociality represents a major evolutionary transition from solitary to group reproduction. The most commonly studied eusocial species, honey…”
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Cooperation, Conflict, and the Evolution of Queen Pheromones
Published in Journal of chemical ecology (01-11-2011)“…While chemical communication regulates individual behavior in a wide variety of species, these communication systems are most elaborated in insect societies…”
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Testing the kinship theory of intragenomic conflict in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-01-2016)“…Sexual reproduction brings genes from two parents (matrigenes and patrigenes) together into one individual. These genes, despite being unrelated, should show…”
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Transitions in social complexity along elevational gradients reveal a combined impact of season length and development time on social evolution
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-07-2014)“…Eusociality is taxonomically rare, yet associated with great ecological success. Surprisingly, studies of environmental conditions favouring eusociality are…”
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NAPS: Integrating pose estimation and tag-based tracking
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-10-2023)“…1. Significant advances in computational ethology have allowed the quantification of behaviour in unprecedented detail. Tracking animals in social groups,…”
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Genomic analysis of post-mating changes in the honey bee queen (Apis mellifera)
Published in BMC genomics (19-05-2008)“…The molecular mechanisms underlying the post-mating behavioral and physiological transitions undergone by females have not been explored in great detail. Honey…”
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Author Correction: Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect
Published in Nature communications (31-05-2018)“…The original version of the Article contained incorrect citation information in reference 67. The reference should read “Russell, A. L., Morrison, S. J.,…”
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Regulation of behaviorally associated gene networks in worker honey bee ovaries
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-01-2012)“…Several lines of evidence support genetic links between ovary size and division of labor in worker honey bees. However, it is largely unknown how ovaries…”
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Social behaviour in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts
Published in Royal Society open science (01-07-2018)“…Social interactions can facilitate transmission of microbes between individuals, reducing variation in gut communities within social groups. Thus, the…”
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The worker honeybee fat body proteome is extensively remodeled preceding a major life-history transition
Published in PloS one (28-09-2011)“…Honeybee workers are essentially sterile female helpers that make up the majority of individuals in a colony. Workers display a marked change in physiology…”
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Individual Variation in Pheromone Response Correlates with Reproductive Traits and Brain Gene Expression in Worker Honey Bees
Published in PloS one (09-02-2010)“…Background: Variation in individual behavior within social groups can affect the fitness of the group as well as the individual, and can be caused by a…”
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Variation in season length and development time is sufficient to drive the emergence and coexistence of social and solitary behavioural strategies
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (01-10-2024)“…Season length and its associated variables can influence the expression of social behaviours, including the occurrence of eusociality in insects. Eusociality…”
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Hormonal gatekeeping via the blood-brain barrier governs caste-specific behavior in ants
Published in Cell (28-09-2023)“…Here, we reveal an unanticipated role of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in regulating complex social behavior in ants. Using scRNA-seq, we find localization in…”
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Solitary bees reduce investment in communication compared with their social relatives
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-06-2017)“…Social animals must communicate to define group membership and coordinate social organization. For social insects, communication is predominantly mediated…”
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Isolation disrupts social interactions and destabilizes brain development in bumblebees
Published in Current biology (20-06-2022)“…Social isolation, particularly in early life, leads to deleterious physiological and behavioral outcomes. Here, we leverage new high-throughput tools to…”
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Developmental transcriptomes predict adult social behaviours in the socially flexible sweat bee, Lasioglossum baleicum
Published in Molecular ecology (18-12-2023)“…Natural variation can provide important insights into the genetic and environmental factors that shape social behaviour and its evolution. The sweat bee,…”
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Rate variation in the evolution of non-coding DNA associated with social evolution in bees
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (22-07-2019)“…The evolutionary origins of eusociality represent increases in complexity from individual to caste-based, group reproduction. These behavioural transitions…”
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