In despotically driven animal societies, one or a few individuals tend to have a
disproportionate influence on group decision-making and actions. However, global …

Migration studies include spectacular examples from vertebrates, such as birds, bats, and
turtles. However, insect migration studies have lagged due to a restrictive definition of what …

During reproductive swarming, a honeybee swarm needs to decide on a new nest site and
then move to the chosen site collectively. Most studies of swarming and nest-site selection …

Honeybees use waggle dances to inform nestmates about the locations of food and nest
sites. The waggle duration corresponds to the distance to a resource, while its direction with …

This chapter introduces a set of heuristics to engineer for emergence, explores a number of
them with a simulation of unmanned vehicle (UxV) swarms, and provides taxonomy to …

In this thesis I critically assess the role of the concept of biological altruism (BA) within
eusociality research by assessing the following questions: 1) Is the concept of BA a correct …

Given the under-representation of genetic analyses of spatial learning in honeybee
literature, I designed an experiment to investigate gene expression profiles associated with …

It Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) have high swarming behavior and high
adaptability, characteristics that allowed the rapid propagation of these bees in tropical …

Background: Total immunoglobulin E (IgE) is a therapeutic target in allergic diseases. DNA
48 methylation in white blood cells (WBCs) was associated with total IgE in an epigenome …