Table 1. Bees used in each experiment.

K refers to Koppert, A to Agralan and Q to the wild caught Leicester queen.

Experiment	Number	Colony	Tissue
Allele specific expression RNA-seq	1	A1	Whole body
	2	A2	Whole body
	2	A3	Whole body
	1	A4	Whole body
	14	K1	Abdomen
	9	Q1	Abdomen
MeDip/MRE/RNA-seq	1	K2	Whole body
qPCR	2	K3	Head
	1	K4	Head
	1	K5	Head