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Jamille Costa Veiga Cristiano Menezes Felipe Andrés León Contrera 《Die Naturwissenschaften》2017,104(3-4):31
The attraction of sexual partners is a vital necessity among insects, and it involves conflict of interests and complex communication systems among male and female. In this study, we investigated the developing of sexual attractiveness in virgin queens (i.e., gynes) of Melipona flavolineata, an eusocial stingless bee. We followed the development of sexual attractiveness in 64 gynes, belonging to seven age classes (0, 3, 6, 9, 15, 18 days post-emergence), and we also evaluated the effect of different social interactions (such as competition between queens and interactions with workers) on the development of attractiveness in other 60 gynes. We used the number of males that tried to mate with a focal gyne as a representative variable of its sexual attractiveness. During the essays, each gyne was individually presented to 10 sexually mature males, and during 3 min, we counted the number of males that everted their genitalia in response to the presence of a gyne. Here, we show that M. flavolineata gynes are capable to (i) maintain their sexual attractiveness for long periods through adult life, (ii) they need a minimum social interaction to trigger the development of sexual attractiveness, and (iii) that gynes express this trait only within a social context. We conclude that the effective occurrence of matings is conditional on potential social interactions that gynes experienced before taking the nuptial flight, when they are still in the nest. These findings bring insights into the factors determining reproductive success in social insects. 相似文献
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Foragers of the stingless bees genus Melipona may produce intranidal sounds that are correlated with food location and quality. In this study, we provide the first detailed
analysis of pulsed sounds produced by Melipona panamica foragers while feeding on a carbohydrate food source. We trained foragers to a 2.5-M sucrose feeder under normal, ambient
temperature (23–33°C) and lower temperature (11–25°C) conditions. We recorded forager sounds under both conditions and tested
the effect of temperature of the thorax, feeder plate, and air on sound temporal characteristics. Forager energetic expenditure
and the number of pulses per visit were significantly higher in the cold condition than in the normal condition. Foragers
spent a longer time at the feeder under the cold condition than during the normal condition. Interpulse durations were significantly
shorter in the cold condition than in the normal condition and became progressively and significantly shorter at the end of
each performance. Thus, pulse production increased before departure. Foragers increased their thoracic temperatures above
ambient at all experimental air temperatures. Under chilled conditions, foragers had a significantly greater difference between
thorax temperature and ambient air temperature than under normal conditions. Foragers must achieve a minimum flight muscle
temperature before take-off, and thus forager sounds may be linked to muscle warm-up. 相似文献
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James?C.?NiehEmail author Felipe?A.?L.?Contrera Juliana?Rangel Vera?L.?Imperatriz-Fonseca 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2003,55(1):87-94
It is unclear whether stingless bees in the genus Melipona (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) can reliably encode the distance to a food source through recruitment sounds produced inside the nest, in part because the sound features correlated with distance also vary with food quality. We therefore trained marked foragers of two species, Melipona mandacaia and M. bicolor, to feeders at different distances and to different sucrose concentrations at the same distance. In both species, foragers successfully recruited to a rich 2.5-m food source and produced pulsed recruitment sounds in which pulse duration was significantly and positively correlated with distance to the rich food source. When returning from poorer food sources (0.6–1.5 m), foragers of both species decreased sound production, producing shorter sound pulses and longer sound interpulses than they did for 2.5 m food located at the same distance. Thus the temporal structure of M. mandacaia and M. bicolor recruitment sounds varies with distance and food quality. However, nestmates were not recruited by performances for poorer food sources (0.6–1.5 m), whose sucrose concentration was sufficiently low to affect recruitment sounds. Surprisingly, the interphase (the time between behavioral phases that communicate location) also increases with decreasing food quality in the closely related honeybees (Apis), suggesting a potential homology in the effect of food quality on the recruitment systems of Apis and Melipona. We explore the evolutionary implications of these similarities.Communicated by M. Giurfa 相似文献
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