Primary Appointments:
Institute for
Behavioral Genetics
Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology
Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology
Ramaley N333
Boulder, CO 80309-0447
phone: (303) 492-7687
fax: (303) 492-8063
email:
michael.breed@colorado.edu
website:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~breed
Behavioral and genetic studies of the recognition cues used by honeybees to discriminate nestmates from non-nestmates. Currently investigating the role of cuticular compounds in recognition, and the patterns of inheritance of chemical cuticular signatures.
Recent Publications