Carlos Antônio Mendes Cardoso-Júnior

The paper examines how social tasks and aggressiveness influence immunity gene expression in the heads of stingless bees, finding upregulation in aggressive species.

The paper shows honey bee queens use different oogenesis checkpoints than workers but share the same molecular pathways for terminating oocyte development.

The paper examines DNA methylation patterns in honey bees under different social contexts and finds no significant differences in methylomes between queenright and queenless colonies, suggesting DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming.

This study shows that queen pheromone upregulates epigenetic modifier genes in honeybee worker brains, suggesting pheromones influence gene expression via epigenetic mechanisms.