Social behavior and the evolution of neuropeptide genes: Lessons from the honeybee genome

The study presents a complete analysis of a honeybee genome that confirms the presence of a large number of neuropeptides in the insect and also describes and explains its social behavior, as well as its evolution. The analysis states that in spite of the genes being a messenger of the brain's signals and being able to modulate behavior tremendously, its increasing number is not found to be related to the social behavior.