Table 3.

Gene expression of B. ignitus in the laboratory flight-cage sampling normalized using EF1α.

Mean ± SEM	MB				Other brain region
	8:30		8:37	9:00	8:30		8:37	9:00
	Nurse bee	Forager			Nurse bee	Forager
BiHR38	1 ± 0.19	2.83 ± 0.45	2.37 ± 0.29	2.49 ± 0.26	0.25 ± 0.02	0.53 ± 0.08	0.48 ± 0.05	0.57 ± 0.06
preBiHR38	1 ± 0.20	2.21 ± 0.32	2.36 ± 0.51	6.48 ± 1.05	0.21 ± 0.05	1.02 ± 0.48	1.46 ± 0.83	2.85 ± 1.07
BiEgr1	1 ± 0.19	2.87 ± 0.56	2.25 ± 0.43	7.90 ± 1.46	0.73 ± 0.06	1.35 ± 0.10	1.05 ± 0.06	1.78 ± 0.14
BiEcR	1 ± 0.06	1.22 ± 0.07	1.51 ± 0.33	1.57 ± 0.07	2.95 ± 0.23	4.80 ± 0.42	3.54 ± 0.20	3.97 ± 0.34

Relative gene expression in each brain tissue of workers normalized to BiEF1α in the B. ignitus laboratory flight-cage sampling compared with the MBs of nurse bees collected at 8:30.