Biology & Life Sciences

Open Highlights: A Swarm of Bee Research

Published January 10, 2017 Curated Collections

Bees are amazing little creatures; while some of them live solitary lifestyles, many bee species form large colonies and function as a superorganism. This Open Highlight Collection examines some of the recent advances in our understanding of these fascinating insects. Open Highlights use recent PLOS Biology research articles as keystones around which to nucleate a short synopsis of up to ten related research articles from other PLOS journals and from the wider Open Access corpus.

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2001736

PLOS Biology A Swarm of Bee Research
January 9, 2017 Lauren A. Richardson

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002564

PLOS Biology Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect
October 4, 2016 Sylvain Alem, Clint J. Perry, Xingfu Zhu, Olli J. Loukola, Thomas Ingraham, Eirik Søvik, Lars Chittka

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10.1371/journal.pone.0162347

PLOS ONE Operant Conditioning in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.): The Cap Pushing Response
September 14, 2016 Charles I. Abramson, Christopher W. Dinges, Harrington Wells
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10.1371/journal.pone.0150399

PLOS ONE Honey Bees Modulate Their Olfactory Learning in the Presence of Hornet Predators and Alarm Component
February 26, 2016 Zhengwei Wang, Yufeng Qu, Shihao Dong, Ping Wen, Jianjun Li, Randolf Menzel, Ken Tan
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002423

PLOS Biology Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal
March 25, 2016 Ken Tan, Shihao Dong, Xinyu Li, Xiwen Liu, Chao Wang, Jianjun Li, James C. Nieh
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157882

PLOS ONE Evidence for Ventilation through Collective Respiratory Movements in Giant Honeybee (Apis dorsata) Nests
August 3, 2016 Gerald Kastberger, Dominique Waddoup, Frank Weihmann, Thomas Hoetzl
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1006097

PLOS Genetics Identification of Multiple Loci Associated with Social Parasitism in Honeybees
June 9, 2016 Andreas Wallberg, Christian W. Pirk, Mike H. Allsopp, Matthew T. Webster
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10.1371/journal.pone.0147106

PLOS ONE Object Recognition in Flight: How Do Bees Distinguish between 3D Shapes?
February 17, 2016 Annette Werner, Wolfgang Stürzl, Johannes Zanker
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004887

PLOS Computational Biology A Model for an Angular Velocity-Tuned Motion Detector Accounting for Deviations in the Corridor-Centering Response of the Bee
May 5, 2016 Alex J. Cope, Chelsea Sabo, Kevin Gurney, Eleni Vasilaki, James A. R. Marshall
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10.1038/srep36649

Scientific Reports Flight behaviour of honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers is altered by initial infections of the fungal parasite Nosema apis : Scientific Reports
February 3, 2016 Ryan Dosselli, Julia Grassl, Andrew Carson, Leigh W. Simmons, Boris Baer
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10.1038/srep32612

Scientific Reports Optimal search patterns in honeybee orientation flights are robust against emerging infectious diseases : Scientific Reports
April 12, 2016 Stephan Wolf, Elizabeth Nicholls, Andrew M. Reynolds, Patricia Wells, Ka S. Lim, Robert J. Paxton, Juliet L. Osborne
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10.1007/s00265-015-2019-5

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Parasites modulate within-colony activity and accelerate the temporal polyethism schedule of a social insect, the honey bee | SpringerLink
October 7, 2015 Myrsini E. Natsopoulou, rDino P. McMahon, Robert J. Paxton
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004816

PLOS Pathogens Prospective Large-Scale Field Study Generates Predictive Model Identifying Major Contributors to Colony Losses
April 13, 2015 Merav Gleit Kielmanowicz, Alex Inberg, Inbar Maayan Lerner, Yael Golani, Nicholas Brown, Catherine Louise Turner, Gerald J. R. Hayes, Joan M. Ballam