About the Authors

Julia D. Fine

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia D. Fine, Hagai Y. Shpigler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Hagai Y. Shpigler

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia D. Fine, Hagai Y. Shpigler

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Allyson M. Ray

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Entomology, Center for Pollinator Research, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States of America

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Nathanael J. Beach

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Alison L. Sankey

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Amy Cash-Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Zachary Y. Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States of America

Ieva Astrauskaite

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Ran Chao

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America, LifeFoundry, Inc., Champaign, United States of America

Huimin Zhao

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Gene E. Robinson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

generobi@illinois.edu

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interest: The authors have submitted a provisional patent application, titled “Queen Monitoring Cages” No. 62/673,342. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.