TY - THES ID - 136392975 TI - The honeybee as a model to study worker policing, epigenetics and ageing AU - Ernst, Ulrich AU - Schoofs, Liliane AU - Verleyen, Peter AU - Wenseleers, Tom AU - KU Leuven. Faculty of science. Department of biology PY - 2016 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Faculty of Science DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136392975 AB - In this joint project of the Laboratory for Entomology, the Laboratoryfor Functional Genomics and Proteomics, and the Laboratory forZoophysiology (Ghent University) we’re studying the physiology andgenomics of altruistic behaviour in the honeybee, namely workersterility and worker policing. With a combined approach of behaviouralobservations, microsatellite analysis, microarrays, proteomics andpeptidomics, we are investigating the mechanisms that are involved inthe suppression of egoistic behaviour in a highly developed society. ER -