Professor Robert E. Page
University of California, Davis

E-mail: repage@ucdavis.edu

Mailing Address:
University of California, Davis
Department of Entomology
367 Briggs Hall
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8584

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Website: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=page

Research Interests: How do complex insect societies evolve? This is the focus of my research program. In order to answer this questions we need to better understand the organization of behavior at the gene, neuron, nervous system, whole animal physiology, individual behavior, and social unit. We also must understand the population and evolutionary genetics of organism we study. This is a daunting task, but "doable" with teams of collaborators. With my collaborators, we have studied the foraging behavior of honey bees at all of these levels of organization. We have successfully demonstrated how substitutions of alleles at variable quantitative trait loci affect the neural system of honey bees resulting in specific changes in foraging behavior and colony-level phenotypes.