Bees & genes

摘要

This article is dedicated to the memory of Roger Morse, my graduate school advisor. "Doc" was a generous, stimulating and demanding mentor. He did much to help launch the careers of many scientists, myself included, and for that I shall always be grateful. Roger Morse himself was never involved in bee genetics, but I hope he would have enjoyed this article because he always delighted in seeing honey bees studied from new perspectives. The perspective described here is so new, in fact, that this article is more perspective than retrospective, that is, long on ideas and short on new discoveries. This article outlines a new approach to studying bee behavior and provides a rationale for this approach that goes "beyond the beehive."