Gro V. Amdam

Disruption of vitellogenin gene function in adult honeybees by intra-abdominal injection of double-stranded RNA.

Social exploitation of vitellogenin.

From genes to societies.

Hormonal control of the yolk precursor vitellogenin regulates immune function and longevity in honeybees.

Genome-wide association between DNA methylation and alternative splicing in an invertebrate.

Epigenetic regulation of aging in honeybee workers.

Reproductive ground plan may mediate colony-level selection effects on individual foraging behavior in honey bees.

Altered physiology in worker honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) infested with the mite Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae): a factor in colony loss during overwintering?

Bivoltinism as an antecedent to eusociality in the paper wasp genus Polistes.

Intergenerational transfers may have decoupled physiological and chronological age in a eusocial insect.

Vitellogenin regulates hormonal dynamics in the worker caste of a eusocial insect.

Social reversal of immunosenescence in honey bee workers.

Complex social behaviour derived from maternal reproductive traits.

Reproductive protein protects functionally sterile honey bee workers from oxidative stress.

Downregulation of vitellogenin gene activity increases the gustatory responsiveness of honey bee workers (Apis mellifera).

Order, disorder, death: lessons from a superorganism.

8. The development and evolution of division of labor and foraging specialization in a social insect (Apis mellifera L.).

Cellular senescence in honey bee brain is largely independent of chronological age.

Behavioral genomics of honeybee foraging and nest defense.

The gene vitellogenin has multiple coordinating effects on social organization.

The making of a social insect: developmental architectures of social design.

The making of a queen: TOR pathway is a key player in diphenic caste development.

Comparative proteomics reveal characteristics of life-history transitions in a social insect.

A diapause pathway underlies the gyne phenotype in Polistes wasps, revealing an evolutionary route to caste-containing insect societies.

Plasticity and robustness of protein patterns during reversible development in the honey bee (Apis mellifera).

Variation in endocrine signaling underlies variation in social life history.

Cognitive aging is linked to social role in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

Sensory response system of social behavior tied to female reproductive traits.

The nurse's load: early-life exposure to brood-rearing affects behavior and lifespan in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

Impaired tactile learning is related to social role in honeybees.

PDK1 and HR46 gene homologs tie social behavior to ovary signals.

The genetic basis of transgressive ovary size in honeybee workers.

Honeybee associative learning performance and metabolic stress resilience are positively associated.

Immunogold localization of vitellogenin in the ovaries, hypopharyngeal glands and head fat bodies of honeybee workers, Apis mellifera.

Down-regulation of honey bee IRS gene biases behavior toward food rich in protein.

The curious case of aging plasticity in honey bees.

Genotype effect on regulation of behaviour by vitellogenin supports reproductive origin of honeybee foraging bias.

Differential gene expression and protein abundance evince ontogenetic bias toward castes in a primitively eusocial wasp.

The developmental genetics and physiology of honeybee societies.

Insulin receptor substrate influences female caste development in honeybees.

Surgically increased ovarian mass in the honey bee confirms link between reproductive physiology and worker behavior.

Hormone response to bidirectional selection on social behavior.

In the laboratory and during free-flight: old honey bees reveal learning and extinction deficits that mirror mammalian functional decline.

Social context, stress, and plasticity of aging.

Deconstructing honeybee vitellogenin: novel 40 kDa fragment assigned to its N terminus.

Flight restriction prevents associative learning deficits but not changes in brain protein-adduct formation during honeybee ageing.

Support for the reproductive ground plan hypothesis of social evolution and major QTL for ovary traits of Africanized worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.).

Insulin-like peptide genes in honey bee fat body respond differently to manipulation of social behavioral physiology.

Honey bee PTEN--description, developmental knockdown, and tissue-specific expression of splice-variants correlated with alternative social phenotypes.

Deciphering a methylome: what can we read into patterns of DNA methylation?

The worker honeybee fat body proteome is extensively remodeled preceding a major life-history transition.

Physiological variation as a mechanism for developmental caste-biasing in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee.

Development of an RNA interference tool, characterization of its target, and an ecological test of caste differentiation in the eusocial wasp polistes.

IRS and TOR nutrient-signaling pathways act via juvenile hormone to influence honey bee caste fate.

Regulation of behaviorally associated gene networks in worker honey bee ovaries.

Worker division of labor and endocrine physiology are associated in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus.

Social pleiotropy and the molecular evolution of honey bee vitellogenin.

Age-related learning deficits can be reversible in honeybees Apis mellifera.

Paratransgenesis: an approach to improve colony health and molecular insight in honey bees (Apis mellifera)?

New meta-analysis tools reveal common transcriptional regulatory basis for multiple determinants of behavior.

Gustatory perception and fat body energy metabolism are jointly affected by vitellogenin and juvenile hormone in honey bees.

The lifespan extension effects of resveratrol are conserved in the honey bee and may be driven by a mechanism related to caloric restriction.

Genetics of reproduction and regulation of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) social behavior.

Reversible switching between epigenetic states in honeybee behavioral subcastes.

Division of labor is associated with age-independent changes in ovarian activity in Pogonomyrmex californicus harvester ants.

Aging and its modulation in a long-lived worker caste of the honey bee.

The role of methylation of DNA in environmental adaptation.

The gene vitellogenin affects microRNA regulation in honey bee (Apis mellifera) fat body and brain.

Vitellogenin recognizes cell damage through membrane binding and shields living cells from reactive oxygen species.