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Wonderfully intricate, but simple enough to try and pick apart! Our lab experimentally investigates honey bee social structure to understand how communal living evolved from ancestral solitary forms of life. As we have come to a better understanding of the physiology and genetics of bees, we have expanded our research interests: the honey bee (Apis mellifera) makes an ideal model organism for understanding the regulation of social life-history, aging and epigenetics... Gro Amdam's research group uses the advanced eusocial honey bee as a model system to study the origins of social life-histories.

Primary location: Tempe United States