Bee Antennae Offer Links between the Evolution of Social Behavior and Communication (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Bee Antennae Offer Links between the Evolution of Social Behavior and Communication

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Sarah Kocher, an associate research scholar at Princeton University's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and her colleagues imaged the antennae of adult females from 36 bee species using a scanning electron microscope. They obtained information about the antennae's surface topography and composition and observed convergent changes in both sensilla structures and the chemical signals of the groups as sociality was gained and lost.

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Bernadette Wittwer, University of Melbourne

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