Added doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.2274 and doi:10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005

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   - 'primary research'
   - 'review'
 papers:
+- title: 'Transcriptomic responses to location learning by honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the brains of dance-followers'
+  doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2274
+  journal: "Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2023"
+  authors:
+  - F Manfredini
+  - <b>Y Wurm</b>
+  - S Sumner
+  - E Leadbeater
+  highlight: true
+  abstract: 'The waggle dances of honeybees are a strikingly complex form of animal communication that underlie the collective foraging behaviour of colonies. The mechanisms by which bees assess the locations of forage sites that they have visited for representation on the dancefloor are now well-understood, but few studies have considered the remarkable backward translation of such information into flight vectors by dance-followers. Here, we explore whether the gene expression patterns that are induced through individual learning about foraging locations are mirrored when bees learn about those same locations from their nest-mates. We first confirmed that the mushroom bodies of honeybee dancers show a specific transcriptomic response to learning about distance, and then showed that approximately 5% of those genes were also differentially expressed by bees that follow dances for the same foraging sites, but had never visited them. A subset of these genes were also differentially expressed when we manipulated distance perception through an optic flow paradigm, and responses to learning about target direction were also in part mirrored in the brains of dance followers. Our findings show a molecular footprint of the transfer of learnt information from one animal to another through this extraordinary communication system, highlighting the dynamic role of the genome in mediating even very short-term behavioural changes.'
+  tag: 'primary research'
+- title: 'How genomics can help biodiversity conservation'
+  doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005
+  journal: "Trends in Genetics, 2023"
+  authors:
+  - K Theissinger
+  - C Fernandes
+  - G Formenti
+  - ...
+  - RM Waterhouse
+  - CJ Mazzoni
+  - J Höglund
+  - ...
+  - G Wörheide
+  - <b>Y Wurm</b>
+  - G Zammit
+  highlight: true
+  abstract: 'The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment, conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed management decisions. Here we survey the main approaches and applications in biodiversity and conservation genomics, considering practical factors, such as cost, time, prerequisite skills, and current shortcomings of applications. Most approaches perform best in combination with reference genomes from the target species or closely related species. We review case studies to illustrate how reference genomes can facilitate biodiversity research and conservation across the tree of life. We conclude that the time is ripe to view reference genomes as fundamental resources and to integrate their use as a best practice in conservation genomics.'
+  tag: 'review'
 - title: 'Expression of subunits of an insecticide target receptor varies across tissues, life stages, castes, and species of social bees'
   doi: 10.1111/mec.16811
   journal: "Molecular Ecology, 2023"