Brain circuits found to control task-switching in leaderless honeybee colonies
Scientists have discovered that specific brain circuits play a key role in how honeybee colonies organise work without any central leader. Researchers identified a neural circuit linked to gene activity that governs how bees divide and switch tasks. By altering this circuit, they were able to make older worker bees revert to queen-care duties typically performed only by younger bees. The findings shed new light on how complex social behaviour is coordinated in bee colonies.
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