Christopher M. Jernigan

The paper uses single-cell transcriptomics to analyze brain cells in paper wasps, showing that Kenyon cells vary with social roles and respond to social interactions.

The paper compares visual learning and brain morphology in bumblebee queens and workers across life stages, finding similar learning performance but differences in brain region sizes.

The paper identifies a localized population of neurons in social wasps that are specifically tuned to wasp faces, analogous to face cells in primates.

This study investigates novelty detection in honey bees by analyzing behavioral and neuronal responses to familiar and novel odors in the antennal lobes.

The paper examines transcriptional responses in the central brain and optic lobe of female paper wasps after social interactions, finding stronger responses in the central brain and gene expression changes related to aggression and reproduction in losers.

This study shows that reduced olfactory experience in adult honey bees leads to less developed antennal lobes, reduced inter-individual variation in glomerular responses, and impaired odor discrimination in learning assays.