Decoupling the effects of nutrition, age and behavioral caste on honey bee physiology and immunity

Miguel Corona; Belen Branchiccela; Shayne Madella; Yanping Chen; Jay Evans

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. . https://doi.org/10.1101/667931 doi: bioRxiv preprint 828 On the other hand, the groups of physiological genes associated with behavior showed a clear 829 difference in their interactions with immune genes. Thus, while the genes associated with nursing 830 showed a strong negative correlation with immune genes, the genes associated with foraging 831 displayed the opposite pattern (Figures 6 and 7 ). An interesting exception was the regulatory 832 immune gene dorsal, which did not show correlations with the genes associated with behavior. 852 DWV and BQCV, and the expression of immune genes, our analysis is unable to distinguish the This article is a US Government work. It is not subject to copyright under 17 USC 105 and is also made available for use under a CC0 license.