Annotated Bibliography

This page is the anotated bibliography of the three scientific research articles I chose for future literature review.

Hewlett, Susie E., et al. “Biogenic Amine Modulation of Honey Bee Sociability and Nestmate Affiliation.” PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 10, Oct. 2018, pp. 1–18. EBSCOhost,doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205686. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=132587973&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Sources for Literature Review of "Biogenic Amine Modulation of Honey Bee Sociability and Nestmate Affiliation"

Susie Hewlett is a biology scientist at Macquarie University who is an expert of bees. She and her co-scientists’ scientific pubulished an article called “Biogenic Amine Modulation of Honey Bee Sociability and Nestmate Affiliation” in PLOS ONE journal.

This article is about a study of the impact of biogenic amine modulation on honey bees’behaviors, and it concludes that dopamine has a great effect on bee sociability and group cohesion. They also tested the influences of octopamine on bees and find it relates to insect social interactions. The researchers used methods such as statistical graphs, controlled experiments to study about the effects of biogenic amine on bees. This article analyzed some factors that relates to bee’s social behaviors, thus, it can work as a supporting article to explain the reasons of bee’s social behaviors.

Černá, Kateřina, et al. “Neighbourhood Society: Nesting Dynamics, Usurpations and Social Behaviour in Solitary Bees.” PLoS ONE,

vol. 8, no. 9, Sept. 2013, pp. 1–9.

EBSCOhost, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073806. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=90531293&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Sources for Literature Review of "Neighbourhood Society: Nesting Dynamics, Usurpations and Social Behaviour in Solitary Bees"

Cerna Katerina, Jakub Straka are scientists of the department of zoology at Charles University in Prague. Their scientific article about bees’ social behavior “Neighbourhood Society: Nesting Dynamics, Usurpations and Social Behaviour in Solitary Bees” has published on PLos ONE in 2013.

This article is about nesting behavior of female solitary bees, and their “exchanging nest” behavior in the neighborhood. This study analyzed four bee familes, Andrenidae, Apidae, Colletidae, and Megachilidae. It used statistical method, such as ANOVA analysis to determine the difference of the nesting behaviors between these groups. It concluded that the nesting behavior are almost the same among these four groups. I will place this article as the first article because this is an observational study that just summarizes bee’s social behaviors without much explanation about it.

Amsalem, Etya, et al. “Exploring the Role of Juvenile Hormone and Vitellogenin in Reproduction and Social Behavior in Bumble Bees.” BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 14, no. 1, May 2014, pp. 1–13.

EBSCOhost, doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-45. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=96046856&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Sources for Literature Review of "Exploring the Role of Juvenile Hormone and Vitellogenin in Reproduction and Social Behavior in Bumble Bees"

Chritina Grozinger, Etya Amsalem and other scientists of the article “Exploring the Role of Juvenile Hormone and Vitellogenin in Reproduction and Social Behavior in Bumble Bees” are scientist at Penn State University. Their specializations are bees, social insects and etc.

In this scientific article, they studied the impact of juvenile hormone and vitellogenin on bumblebee’s reproduction. They used methods such as controlled group study, and they conducted several experiments to analyze the influences of vg RNA expression and aggression on bumblebees’ reproduction behavior. It shows that juvenile hormone is related to bunble bee's reproduction. This article shows factors that could influence bees’ behavior, thus, I will treat it parallel to the “biogenic amine” article.