本书是江西农业大学蜜蜂研究所曾志将教授团队在国家自然科学基金、国家蜂产业技术体系、江西省一流学科建设等项目连续资助下取得的研究成果。内容包括：“蜜蜂级型分化及其分子机制”“优质蜂王培育及其分子机制”“蜜蜂行为生物学及其分子机制”“蜜蜂基因组生物学及CRISPR/Cas9技术”等蜜蜂发育及行为生物学主题。全书知识新颖、理论性强，可以使读者了解更多的蜜蜂生物学新知识，可供广大生物科技工作者及研究生参考使用。

曾志将，1965年7月生，江西吉水人。1987年毕业于福建农学院养蜂专业，获农学学士学位。同年分配至江西农业大学从事养蜂教学与研究工作，1992年破格晋升为讲师，1993年破格晋升为副教授，1995年聘任为硕士研究生导师，1998年破格晋升为教授，2002年获同济大学理学博士学位，2003年聘任为博士研究生导师。现任江西农业大学副校长/蜜蜂研究所所长、二级教授、博士研究生导师、特种经济动物饲养博士点学科带头人、江西省蜜蜂生物学与饲养重点实验室主任、国家畜禽遗传资源委员会委员兼蜂专业委员会副组长、农业农村部岗位科学家。是国家有突出贡献中青年专家、国家百千万人才工程入选者、享受国务院政府特殊津贴专家、全国蜂业突出贡献奖获得者、中国养蜂学会副理事长、农业农村部授粉昆虫生物学重点实验室学术委员会主任、江西省示范研究生导师创新团队带头人、江西省高等学校动物生产类专业教学指导委员会主任、江西省赣鄱英才555工程领军人才、江西省主要学科学术和技术带头人。

Ⅰ Honeybee Caste Differentiation and its Molecular Mechanism
1.Extent and Complexity of RNA Processing in Honey Bee Queen and Worker Caste Development
2.The Diverging Epigenomic Landscapes of Honeybee Queens and Workers Revealed by Multiomic Sequencing
3.Phenotypic Dimorphism between Honeybee Queen and Worker is Regulated by Complicated Epigenetic Modifications
4.A Comparison of Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Queen, Worker and Drone Larvae by RNA-Seq
5.DNA Methylation Comparison between 4-day-old Queen and Worker Larvae of Honey Bee
6.H3K4mel Modification Functions in Caste Differentiation in Honey Bees
Ⅱ High Quality Queen Bee Breeding and its Molecular Mechanism
1.A Maternal Effect on Queen Production in Honey Bees
2.Making a Queen: an Epigenetic Analysis of the Robustness of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queen Developmental Pathway
3.Transgenerational Accumulation of Methylome Changes Discovered in Commercially Reared Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queens
4.Transcriptomic, Morphological and Developmental Comparison of Adult Honey Bee Queens Reared from Eggs or Worker Larvae of Differing Ages
5.Effects of Commercial Queen Rearing Methods on Queen Fecundity and Genome Methylation
6.Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Maternal Effect Causes Alternation of DNA Methylation Regulating Queen Development
7.Transcriptome Comparison between Newly Emerged and Sexually Matured Bees of Apis mellifera
8.Effects of Queen Cell Size and Caging Days of Mother Queen on Rearing Young Honey Bee Queens Apis mellifera L
9.Feeding Asian Honeybee Queens with European Honeybee Royal Jelly Alters Body Color and Expression of Related Coding and Non-coding RNAs
10.全基因组DNA甲基化揭示西方蜜蜂表观遗传印迹
Ⅲ Behavioral Biology of Honeybee and its Molecular Mechanism
1.RFID Monitoring Indicates Honeybees Work Harder before a Rainy Day
2.Starving Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Larvae Signal Pheromonally to Worker Bees
3.The Involvement of a Floral Scent in Plant-honeybee Interaction
4.The Capping Pheromones and Putative Biosynthetic Pathways in Worker and Drone Larvae of Honey Bees Apis mellifera
5.Differential Protein Expression Analysis following Olfactory Learning in Apis cerana
6.Deltamethrin Impairs Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Dancing Communication
7.The Effects of Sublethal Doses of Imidacloprid and Deltamethrin on Honeybee Foraging Time and the Brain Transcriptome
8.Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Modulate Dance Communication in Response to Pollution by Imidacloprid
9.Absence of Nepotism in Waggle Communication of Honeybees (Apis mellifera)
10.Influence of RNA Interference-mediated Reduction of Or11 on the Expression of Transcription Factor Kr-hl in Apis mellifera Drones
11.Cloning and Expression Pattern of Odorant Receptor 11 in Asian Honeybee Drones, Apis cerana (Hymenoptera, Apidae)
12.Expression Patterns of Four Candidate Sex Pheromone Receptors in Honeybee Drones (Apis mellifera)
13.Age Components of Queen Retinue Workers in Honey Bee Colony (Apis mellifera)
14.Genotypic Variability of the Queen Retinue Workers in Honeybee Colony (Apis mellifera)
15.蜂王上颚腺信息素对雄蜂候选性信息素受体基因表达的影响
16.蜜蜂蜂王与雄蜂幼虫饥饿信息素鉴定及其生物合成通路
17.东方蜜蜂幼虫封盖信息素含量及生物合成通路
Ⅳ Honeybee Genome Biology and CRISPR/Cas
1.A Chromosome-scale Assembly of the Asian Honeybee Apis cerana Genome
2.Signatures of Positive Selection in the Genome ofApis mellifera carnica: A subspecies of European Honeybees
3.Histomorphological Study on Embryogenesis of the Honeybee Apis cerana
4.Dynamic Transcriptome Landscape of Asian Domestic Honeybee (Apis cerana) Embryonic Development Revealed by High-quality RNA-seq
5.High-efficiency CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Gene Editing in Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Embryos
6.A Comparison of RNA Interference via Injection and Feeding in Honey Bees
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