Effects of immunostimulation on social behavior, chemical
communication and genome-wide gene expression in honey bee
workers (Apis mellifera) 1 Laboratoire Ecologie Evolution
Symbiose, UMR CNRS 6556, University of Poitiers, 40 avenue du
Recteur Pineau, Cedex, F-86022, POITIERS, France 2 Department of
Entomology, Center for Pollinator Research, Center for Chemical
Ecology, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA 3 Previous
address: Department of Entomology, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA BMC Genomics 2012, 13:558
doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-558Published: 16 October 2012 Social
insects, such as honey bees, use molecular, physiological and
behavioral responses to combat pathogens and parasites. The
honey bee genome contains all of the canonical insect immune
response pathways, and several studies have demonstrated that
pathogens can activate expression of immune effectors. Honey
bees also use behavioral responses, termed social i