Early Life Exposure to Queen Mandibular Pheromone Mediates Long-Term Brain Gene Expression in Honeybee Workers

We show that QMP treatment strongly affects forager gene expression in the mushroom bodies, antennal lobes, and antennae in bees treated early in life (1 day old), but much less so in bees treated at nurse or forager age.

本研究表明，对生命早期（1日龄）的蜜蜂施加蜂王下颌信息素（Queen Mandibular Pheromone，QMP）处理，会显著影响其采集蜂蕈形体、触角叶及触角中的基因表达；而在保育蜂或采集蜂阶段施加该处理时，对基因表达的影响则大幅减弱。