Faculty Fellows

Michael Breed

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

Research Interests:

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.

Selected Publications:

1. Buchwald R, Breed MD, Greenberg AR, Otis G. (2006). Interspecific variation in beeswax as a biological construction material. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 209, 3984-9. | pubmed abstract |

2. Breed MD, Leger EA, Pearce AN, Wang YJ. (1998). Comb wax effects on the ontogeny of honey bee nestmate recognition. Animal Behavior, 55, 13-20. | pubmed abstract |

3. Breed MD, Williams KR, Fewell JH. (1988). Comb wax mediates the acquisition of nest-mate recognition cues in honey bees. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 85, 8766-8769. | pubmed abstract |