@article{ReimScheiner2014,
  author    = {Reim, Tina and Scheiner, Ricarda},
  title     = {Division of labour in honey bees: age- and task-related changes in the expression of octopamine receptor genes},
  series = {Insect molecular biology},
  volume    = {23},
  journal   = {Insect molecular biology},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0962-1075},
  doi       = {10.1111/imb.12130},
  pages     = {833 -- 841},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {The honey bee (Apis melliferaL.) has developed into an important ethological model organism for social behaviour and behavioural plasticity. Bees perform a complex age-dependent division of labour with the most pronounced behavioural differences occurring between in-hive bees and foragers. Whereas nurse bees, for example, stay inside the hive and provide the larvae with food, foragers leave the hive to collect pollen and nectar for the entire colony. The biogenic amine octopamine appears to play a major role in division of labour but the molecular mechanisms involved are unknown. We here investigated the role of two characterized octopamine receptors in honey bee division of labour. AmOctR1 codes for a Ca2+-linked octopamine receptor. AmOctR3/4 codes for a cyclic adenosine monophosphate-coupled octopamine receptor. Messenger RNA expression of AmOctR1 in different brain neuropils correlates with social task, whereas expression of AmOctR3/4 changes with age rather than with social role per se. Our results for the first time link the regulatory role of octopamine in division of labour to specific receptors and brain regions. They are an important step forward in our understanding of complex behavioural organization in social groups.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FrenchSimcockRolkeetal.2014,
  author    = {French, Alice S. and Simcock, Kerry L. and Rolke, Daniel and Gartside, Sarah E. and Blenau, Wolfgang and Wright, Geraldine A.},
  title     = {The role of serotonin in feeding and gut contractions in the honeybee},
  series = {Journal of insect physiology},
  volume    = {61},
  journal   = {Journal of insect physiology},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0022-1910},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jinsphys.2013.12.005},
  pages     = {8 -- 15},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BecherGrimmThorbeketal.2014,
  author    = {Becher, Matthias A. and Grimm, Volker and Thorbek, Pernille and Horn, Juliane and Kennedy, Peter J. and Osborne, Juliet L.},
  title     = {BEEHAVE: a systems model of honeybee colony dynamics and foraging to explore multifactorial causes of colony failure},
  series = {Journal of applied ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society},
  volume    = {51},
  journal   = {Journal of applied ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0021-8901},
  doi       = {10.1111/1365-2664.12222},
  pages     = {470 -- 482},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {BEEHAVE offers a valuable tool for researchers to design and focus field experiments, for regulators to explore the relative importance of stressors to devise management and policy advice and for beekeepers to understand and predict varroa dynamics and effects of management interventions. We expect that scientists and stakeholders will find a variety of applications for BEEHAVE, stimulating further model development and the possible inclusion of other stressors of potential importance to honeybee colony dynamics.},
  language  = {en}
}